52 GENESEE FLATS. 



ample as all American breakfasts are, I in- 

 spected Mr Newbold's farm-offices which are 

 proportionally larger and more commodious 

 than any I had yet seen, and include a thrash- 

 ing-mill moved by water but still they are 

 not on what, in Scotland, would be considered 

 a proper scale, or properly laid out. 



We then drove out to his farm which con- 

 sists of fine rich meadow land on the Genesee 

 flats. His stock is of a better kind and in 

 much better condition than Colonel Words- 

 worth's. I saw a very good Durham bull, se- 

 veral Durham cows and heifers, and crosses of 

 these with the native breed, the quality of which 

 latter distinctly proved the vast improvement 

 of the stock here, that may be made by judi- 

 cious crossing. 



Our perambulation was, however, suddenly 

 interrupted by a violent thunder storm which 

 drove us back. For the first ten days after 

 my arrival at Boston, the weather had been 

 cold and very backward for the season, none 

 of the forest trees being yet in leaf. For the 

 last few days it had become hot and sultry, 



