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blade and top the corn, which was an indif- 

 ferent crop, and set more for the support of 

 the cows than any other use : it was not 

 managed properly on account of my inten- 

 tion to leave the country, and finding it 

 would not pay for good management. We 

 began this work; and I should have been very 

 hard set to get it harvested at all, the turnips 

 sold, or the potatoes got out of the ground, 

 &c. although I had then four men and a 

 boy on the farm : but this is the time of the 

 intermittent fever coming on,— which is so 

 frequent, that, on a fair calculation, you 

 must not reckon on more than one-half of 

 your people to be able to work at this season 

 of the year, at one time. But it happened 

 that those were five Englishmen landed at 

 Baltimore, and the yellow fever raged so in 

 that city that they could not get any work 

 there, nor did they choose it : otherwise I 

 must have lost some part of the crops raised, 

 if I had not met with them : for it was with 

 some difficulty that I got all in before the 



