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Having spent some very agreeable days 



with him, he introduced me to Colonel 



Niclos, a very pleasant and genteel man. 



He was remarkable for fine fruits : he 



gave me some of the best cyder, of his own 



making, I ever drank — very little inferior 



to Champagne ; it was delightful. From 



his cyder I discovered the possibility of 



making a very great improvement in that 



beverage : the cyder in America is chiefly 



made of decayed apples. 



After spending a day with him, I was 

 introduced to a Mr. Tilford, an English- 

 man ; whose lady and himself repeated a 

 number of grievances to me respecting 

 America. He had a farm in good order, 

 and a great deal of wheat and Indian corn, 

 very little inferior to Mr. Loyd's ; but he 

 confessed the farming to be a very bad 

 business. I then returned to Mr. Single- 

 ton's, where I remained a day or two 

 before my arrival at Orange-Hill. 



