y are, for that might be compleatly managed
by the _Negroes_; but they should carry on other Inventions, Trades, and
Arts, and be confined to follow their own respective Callings and
Occupations wherein they are most artful; and when their Time is served,
better Care might be taken of them, and such Provision and Privileges
allowed them, that they should be obliged to labour and get plentifully
their own Living in an honest Way.

Now when I come to find Employment for all these People, what a vast
Field is presented to View for their Labour? Nine and Twenty large and
fertile Counties, for the most Part thinly inhabited, with Plenty of all
Sorts of the best Provisions and Materials. Most if not all Sorts of
_English_ Husbandry, I know experimentally, may be carried on there with
much less Labour, and far greater Encrease than in _England_: For
Instance, it is common only by howing up the Ground, and throwing Seed
upon it, and harrowing it in, to reap from sixty to eighty Bushels for
one of _English_ Wheat, of a large full Grain with a thin Rind; and I
have had two Tuns off an Acre of Clover, which we may mow twice; and as
for Barley's being burnt up with dry hot Weather, it often has the same
fate in several Parts of _England_; besides more Experience and
Observation of the Seasons, will make People more expert in the
Management of that, and all other Sorts of Grain, or Seeds, and Grass,
that they have not there brought yet to the greatest Perfection. Several
_English_ Farmers have indeed been baulked of their Expectation, in
Attempts of carrying on their Art to great Advantage in _Virginia_; but
this in a great Measure I attribute to their want of Judgment, and too
strict Observance of the _English_ Customs and Times, without making
proper Allowance for the Difference of Soil, Seasons, and Climates;
besides the vast Expence and Trouble, and the long Time required in
clearing the Ground for their Purpose, in building of Barns,
Farm-Houses, _&c._ so that frequently by that Time that they have
brought their Purposes to Perfection, their Patience begins to be tired,
and their Purses are pretty well emptied; so that at last they run into
the rapid Current of planting Tobacco, which they know will bring them
in certain Gain with but little Expence.

Now for the Conveniency of Husbandry, I know a certain Gentleman, who
employs a great Number of _Negroes_ in clearing Plantations, and
planting Corn and Tobacco, as usual, with t