English Historical Documents, Volume 10David Charles Douglas Oxford University Press, 1959 - Great Britain |
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Page 431
... hand , and hoed them with a hand hoe , the expence was great , and the operation not half performed , by the deceitfulness of the hoers , who left half the land unhoed , and covered it with the earth from the part they did hoe , and ...
... hand , and hoed them with a hand hoe , the expence was great , and the operation not half performed , by the deceitfulness of the hoers , who left half the land unhoed , and covered it with the earth from the part they did hoe , and ...
Page 432
... hand - hoe does not go deep enough to recover them ; and it is seldom that these rolled turnips can be hand - hoed at the critical time ; because the earth is then become so hard , that the hoe will not enter it , without great ...
... hand - hoe does not go deep enough to recover them ; and it is seldom that these rolled turnips can be hand - hoed at the critical time ; because the earth is then become so hard , that the hoe will not enter it , without great ...
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... hands , and each hand perhaps passes a thousand in a day ; likewise , by this means , the work becomes so simple that , five times in six , children of six or eight years old do it as well as men , and earn from ten pence to eight ...
... hands , and each hand perhaps passes a thousand in a day ; likewise , by this means , the work becomes so simple that , five times in six , children of six or eight years old do it as well as men , and earn from ten pence to eight ...
Contents
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 3 |
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY | 68 |
Letter from the Admiralty Board to Sir John Norris Commanderin | 70 |
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