l8oo. travels through America, g^ 



feveral refpectable gentlemen, many of whom were ufeful to 

 him during his progrefs in the United States, the Duke fet out 

 on the 5th May 1795) in company with a young Engliflimau 

 named Guillemard, v>^ho had been led to vifit America to ob- 

 tain accurate information of the country. They travelled on 

 horfeback, with one fervant, which was certainly the beft way 

 of journeying, where roads are generally bad, and accommoda- 

 tion neither good, nor to be found fo eafily, as in m.any other 

 countries. In this manner they proceeded up the Schuylkill, 

 upon the banks of which a great deal of good land is to be 

 found ; and while the Duke attentively examined the farms, 

 and enquired about the mode of their cultivation, his fellow- 

 traveller appears to have been equally attentive to make mi- 

 neralogical obfervations. 



We make an extract from this part of the work, which will 

 give a glimpfe of the prefent ftatc of hufbandry in the pro- 

 vince of Pennfylvania. 



* I was defiroufi of being more accurately acquainted with the 

 ftate of agriculture and hufbandry about Reading, which, in Philadel- 

 phia, had been poinded out to me as the moft perfeift in all Pennfyl- 

 vania, and I therefore wiflied to converfe with one of the beft in- 

 formed farmers. Mr Evans had been named to me as fuch. He 

 fuperiatends and manages the farm of Angelico for Mr Nicholfon 

 in Philadelphia, who bought it three years ago of Governor Mif- 

 flin. This farift, which lies three miles from Reading, on the way 

 to Lancafter, confifts of nine hundred acres, four hundred only of 

 which have hitherto been cultivated, and fifty of thefe lye in paf- 

 ture. From fixty to feventy acres confift of the fineft meadows, 

 fome of which are fown with clover. They are watered at pleafui'e, 

 partly by the Angelico, a fmall brook from which the place takes 

 its name, and partly by a very copious fpring, which waters fuch 

 parts as are not within reach of the Angelico. The grafs is fine, 

 flrong, and bufhy, and the only care taken of it confiits in a flight 

 irrigation. The reft of the land is under the plough, and produces 

 wheat, rye, and buck-wheat, oats and Indian corn, but without 

 any mixed rotation of crops. The land is of the beft quality/, be- 

 ing a rich clay, from twenty-four to twenty-eiorht inches deep. 

 Some places are ftony. More or lefs manure is laid upon the foil 

 every three years. From four to five cart-loads of dung, about 

 fifteen hundred weight each, are generally allotted to an acre ; but 

 the dung is far from being in a ftate to anfwer the intended pur- 

 pofe. The produce of the firft year, after the ground has beeri 

 cleared, is twenty-five bulhels of wheat, forty buOiels of rye, forty 

 buftiels of barley, eight bufbels of oats, twenty-five buihels of In- 

 dian corn, per acre. It would produce confiderably more, if the 

 wood were felkd In a more careful manner, and the ground fome- 



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