. Travels in the interior of Brazil : with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs : and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts : including a voyage to the Rio de La Plata. n neglectful in the improve-ment of them. Here is, for instance, abundanceof excellent clay and plenty of wood on the marginof the rivers, yet it is rare to meet with an inclo-sure, even for a kitchen garden, much more sofor a corn-field. They generally choose theirgrounds for tillage by the banks of a rivulet, so asto have one side or sometimes two sides bounde
. Travels in the interior of Brazil : with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs : and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts : including a voyage to the Rio de La Plata. n neglectful in the improve-ment of them. Here is, for instance, abundanceof excellent clay and plenty of wood on the marginof the rivers, yet it is rare to meet with an inclo-sure, even for a kitchen garden, much more sofor a corn-field. They generally choose theirgrounds for tillage by the banks of a rivulet, so asto have one side or sometimes two sides boundedby it; the remainder is fenced in the most clumsyand bungling manner imaginable. Ploughing isperformed by the help of two oxen yoked to acrooked piece of wood, about four inches in dia-meter, and pointed at the end. After the groundhas been rooted up, the wheat is sown, withoutany previous attempt to clear it from noxiousseeds. While it grows up, it is never weeded; sothat wild oats, poppies, and other pernicious herbs,thriving among it in wild luxuriance, obstructthe suns rays and hinder it from ripening corn, beans, melons, &c. are all treated ina similar way. The wheat, when ripe, is cut down PEON CATCHING. A j£j,lA ir-t
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