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part of it destroyed by mice before I perceived 

 it, but, to put the crop at the lowest, it was seven 

 gallons, Winchester measure, of shelled corn. 

 Now multiply two hundred and thirteen, which 

 is the number of three quarter rods in an acre, 

 by seven, the number of gallons upon this three 

 quarters of a rod 5 and you will find the result will 

 be, one thousand four hundred and ninety one 

 gallons, which divided by eight (the number of 

 gallons in a bushel), the result will be one hundred 

 and eighty-six bushels and three gallons to one 

 acre of land, statute measure 5 that is to say, a 

 hundred and sixty rods to the acre, the rod being 

 sixteen feet and a half long. 



32. With this seed, with the produce of this 

 three quarters of a rod of ground, together with 

 a little that I got from Mr. Walker, in Sussex, 

 I planted my field at Barn-Elm, which field I am 

 persuaded will cause this plant to be cultivated 

 all over England, Ireland, and even Scotland; so 

 that, in this case, as well as in so many others, 

 a mighty event will arise, I will not call it from 

 a trifling, but certainly from an accidental cause; 

 for, in all probability, if our proneness to sleep 

 on the 7th June, 1827, had not been thwarted by 

 the heat, and the enchanting songs of those sirens 

 the fine English gnats, which are certainly " love 

 children '' of those more sonorous and more 

 harmonious songsters the musquitos, in all pro- 



