A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia, By Thomas Hariot
































































































































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For This I Can Assure You That According To The Rate We Haue Made Proofe Of, One Man May Prepare

And husbane so much grounde (hauing once borne corne before) with lesse the foure and twentie houres labour, as shall

Yeelde him victuall in a large proportio for a twelue moeth, if hee haue nothing else, but that which the same groud will yeelde, and of that kinde onelie which I haue before spoken of: the saide groud being also but of fiue and twentie yards square. And if neede require, but that there is ground enough, there might be raised out of one and the selfsame ground two haruestes or ofcomes; for they sowe or set and may at anie time when they thinke good from the middest of March vntill the ende of Iune: so that they also set when they haue eaten of their first croppe. In some places of the countrey notwithstanding they haue two haruests, as we haue heard, out of one and the same ground.

For English corne neuertheles whether to vse or not to vse it, you that inhabite maie do as you shall haue farther cause to thinke best. Of the grouth you need not to doubt: for barlie, oates and peaze, we haue seene proof of, not beeing purposely [b 4] sowen but fallen casually in the worst sort of ground, and yet to be as faire as any we haue euer seene here in England. But of wheat because it was musty and hat taken salt water wee could make no triall:

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