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The man here owned 300 acres of land in part 

 ploughable. A few years ago he bought it at 5 Pd. 

 Pensylv. Current the acre, and paid for it in paper- 

 money at a time when this was worth about 50 for one 

 in hard dollars ; so that the small estate cost him only 

 60 Pds. hard money. He was one of the few who were 

 wise enough during the war to exchange their paper- 

 money for land + at the right time. In order to get free 

 of the linen-money, high prices were offered for land, 

 and thus many land-owners, willing to put faith in the 

 solemn promises of the Congress, were tempted to let 

 go their holdings, in the expectation of putting out the 

 paper capital at usury, for they flattered themselves 

 they would be able to exchange it very soon for like 

 amounts in silver. But unfortunately all these specu- 

 lators found themselves vastly deceived in the result. 

 On his 300 acres this man pays 12 Pd. Pensylv. Cur- 

 rent, and praises it as good land. 



Just in this region both the North and the South 

 Mountain appear all at once very high, steep, and 

 crested, but the latter soon falls away and seems to 

 disappear. The road to Fort Loudon now proceeds 

 over hills alternately of yellow flint-stone and rough, 

 black, broken, slaty soil through the whole of Hamil- 

 ton Township ; and no more limestone is to be seen on 

 these hills. It is said that on digging down gravel is 

 reached after 10-15 ft. of this sort of slate. Most 

 of the foot-hills seemed to be of this structure. Lime- 

 stone very probably lies beneath, for the other road 

 through Chambers-town to Loudon is through lime- 

 stone the whole way, and it appears again on descend- 

 ing the other side of these hills towards Fort Loudon. 

 This almost forgotten and certainly ruined fort was 



