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already experienced in a similar conveyance, 

 but in this I was most agreeably disappointed. 



After leaving Pittsburgh a few miles, I 

 found the country altogether change its cha- 

 racter ; the road macadamized and sound ; 

 the country open ; the fields large and well 

 cultivated, and completely cleared of the stumps 

 which obstructed and greatly disfigured almost 

 every field I had hitherto seen. In short, I 

 was now, comparatively speaking, in an old 

 country. 



The crops consisted of wheat and Indian 

 corn, with occasionally patches of oats and 

 rye. Barley appears to be little known as a 

 crop in the States, at least I had not yet seen 

 a single field of it ; nor, although I understand 

 beans, pease, and also turnips, are cultivated 

 in some places, have I observed any of these 

 grown by farmers. Indian corn seems to be 

 the great staple, and to come in place of our 

 fallow or cleaning-crops, for which purpose, as 

 I have already observed, it seems, in one re- 

 spect, well calculated. Red clover is culti- 



