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land was in the company • and I spent a 

 most agreeable day. 



I went the next day to view Strawberry- 

 hill. I found it a beautiful situation, but 

 every thing in very bad order. It had 

 been a good house ; there were large gardens 

 and orchards, with a great number of dif- 

 ferent fruits, more than I had ever seen in 

 America, but the fruit-trees very much 

 broken and abused. Here was, however, 

 the same complaint as every where else. 

 The land was very poor, covered with sedge- 

 grass and small pine-trees, which latter par- 

 ticularly denote a poor soil. It was a place 

 for a man to spend money at, but I could 

 see very little prospect to get any ; other- 

 wise, Mr. Thompson's offer was such as it 

 seemed a folly to refuse— for he requested 

 no rent ; and would repair the buildings, 

 lend me money, or any thing. But as I 

 had then formed an opinion of cows, and 

 selling milk, Anapolis appeared to me a 

 poor place, for there was nothing to keep 

 cows on ; and, if there was, no person to 



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