. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 80 September 1748. «i:i % 4. ed by the inhabitants of the country. When a corn-field has been obliged to bear the fame kind of corn for three years together, it does not a
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 80 September 1748. «i:i % 4. ed by the inhabitants of the country. When a corn-field has been obliged to bear the fame kind of corn for three years together, it does not after that produce any thing at all, if it be not well ma- nured, or fallowed for fome years. Manure is very difficult to be got, and therefore people ra- ther leave the field uncultivated. In that interval it is covered with all forts of plants and trees j and the countryman, in the mean while, culti- vates a piece of ground which has till then been fallow, or he chufes a part of the ground which has never been ploughed before, and he can in both cafes be pretty fure of a plentiful crop. This method can here be ufed with great convenience. For the foil is loofe, fo that it can eafily be ploughed, and every countryman has commonly a great deal of land for his property. The cattle here are neither houfed in winter, nor tended in the fields, and for this reafon they cannot gather a fufficient quantity of dung. The cattle were originally brought from Eu- rope, The natives have never had any, and, at prefent, few of them care to get any. But the cattle degenerate by degrees here, and become fmaller. For the cows, horfes, Iheep, and hogs, are all larger in England, though thofe which arc brought over are of that breed. But the firft generation decreafes a little, and the third and fourth is of the fame fize with the cattle already common here. The climate, the foil, and the food, altogether contribute their fhare towards producing this change. It is remarkable that the inhabitants o
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