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three or four horses in training, and what 

 enables him to do this is, that he has very 

 extensive iron-works, or otherwise he could 

 not. He is a very genteel man, an_d is said 

 to keep the best table in America. I con- 

 tinued in friendship with him to the time of 

 my leaving the country ; and as he had a 

 house in Baltimore, where he spent his 

 winter, I often experienced his great hospi- 

 tality. 



In the General's farm was a part (of fifty 

 acres) equal in quality to Mr. Gittings's for 

 timothy- meadow : and by pains and. la- 

 bour it might be watered ; but the expenoc 

 of those things in America are not to be 

 estimated, which forbids all improvements. 

 Besides, the roads from thence to Balti- 

 more are so bad for carriages, as to be a 

 day's work in the winter for a team ; and 

 horses are of much more chargeable keep- 

 ing than in England, from the two ex- 

 tremes of hot and cold. These fifty acres 

 produced a sort of grass, by nature rather 

 superior to most that I saw in the country ; 



