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The best farmers in this prolific region are beginning to see that 

 they have parceled out to themselves too much land, to be cultivat- 

 ed well, and were it not for " the fates," they say they would have 

 it otherwise, but, — but, and so it is apt to end in but — their lands 

 can not be purchased for less than one hundred dollars per acre, 

 often more than that. The farmers there usually own from three 

 hundred to twelve hundred acres ; and it is by no means uncommon 

 to see fields of from fifty to two hundred and fifty acres of plowed 

 land, enclosed by one " string of fence," as is the expression. A 

 man owning but one or two hundred acres of ground, is considered 

 in very moderate circumstances. One farmer in Scott county owns 

 three thousand acres in one body and can neither read, nor write ; 

 thirty years ago he was not worth a dollar, but is now a millionaire. 



SCOTT COUNTY. 



Speaking of Scott County, around Georgetown, its seat of justice, 

 are some of the neatest, wealthiest and most learned farmers in the 

 country. J. C. Robinson, Esq., Dr. Gano, Dr. Campbell, Prof. 

 Farnham, and others, in its immediate vicinity, have splendid farms, 

 and though professional gentlemen, take great pleasure in displaying 

 a refined taste in horticulture and agriculture. Here is located the 

 somewhat celebrated Georgetown (Baptist) College, founded in 

 1840 — an imposing structure, on a fine eminence, and having an 

 able faculty of Professors, with about one hundred and fifty Stu- 

 dents in the College. 



The Female Seminary, a noble brick edifice one hundred by sixty 

 feet, stands on a beautiful swell of ground adjacent, and is owned 

 by Prof. Farnham, who is acting Principal. It has sixty board- 

 ing students — one hundred, including day scholars, and a graduating 

 class of seventeen young ladies, between the ages of seventeen and 

 twenty. The grounds fronting this Institution are laid out in fine 

 taste. 



palatial residences. 



Magnificent private residences often present themselves to the 

 traveler, as the homesteads of wealthy farmers, many of whom 

 have not yet returned (in April) from their winter quarters in the 

 south ; and one is frequently lead to compare them with their sur- 

 roundings of parks, outhouses, and dwellings for the negroes, etc. — 

 fenced in, as they commonly are by substantial stone walls — with 

 the feudal estates of old England. The style of their renowned hos- 

 pitality, too, is princely. While thousands thus live in luxury and 



