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Esq. at Why-House, a man of very exten- 

 sive possessions — I have heard say, thirteen 

 plantations, of one thousand acres each. His 

 house and gardens are what may be termed 

 elegant : and the land appeared the best I 

 ever saw in any one spot in America. He 

 had a deer-park, which is a very rare thing 

 there : I saw but two in the country ; 

 this, and another belonging to Colonel 

 Mercer. These parks are but small — not 

 above fifty acres each. I could scarcely tell 

 what the deer lived on. There were only 

 some of those small rushes growing in this 

 park which bear the name of grass, and 

 leaves of trees. 



Mr. Singleton and Mr. Loyd had each a 

 field of clover, and all the clover I saw in 

 my ride. If clover were as productive as 

 some authors tell us, there would be more 

 of it grown: but, like mine, it will not pay 

 for mowing. Mr. Loyd had a small field 

 of timothy, — I suppose intended for his 

 Saddle and carriage horses, — and the only 

 one I saw in all my ride, of any intended 



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