48 GENESEE FLATS. 



season and are paid by the piece, generally 

 accomplishing the shearing of his flock of 2000 

 sheep in the course of one week, but from the 

 description I had of it the work is but rough- 

 ly done. 



Having on the first day of my sojourn here 

 inspected Colonel Wordsworth's farm, I rode 

 out with him again on the 22d, and took a 

 circuit of twenty miles over this enchant- 

 ing country of upland and meadow, already 

 one of the most beautiful and only requiring 

 a proper application of agricultural skill to be 

 rendered one of the most productive in the 

 world. As conveying some idea of the vigo- 

 rous vegetation the soil is capable of sustaining, 

 I may mention that in the course of our ride 

 I saw in Colonel Wordsworth's meadows an 

 oak tree which I measured and found to be 

 fifteen yards in circumference near the ground. 



The Genesee flats, of which as already ob- 

 served these meadows are a portion, are 100 

 miles in length and from three to four in 

 breadth, thus perhaps exceeding in extent 

 any continuous tract of equally fertile land in 



