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SECTION VII. 



Another Tow, and some Instructions given in 

 Baltimore and Philadelphia. 



The crops being put in, the potatoes got 

 up, and all prepared for the winter, I was 

 engaged with a new brewery at Baltimore. 

 I had that to attend to, to teach them the 

 business. By this I learned to know the 

 weight of the American barley, in Vir- 

 ginia especially, which weighed about forty 

 pounds per bushel, forty-five pounds the 

 highest, with such quantities of garlic 

 in it as astonished me much. In steeping 

 two hundred bushels, there was as much 

 as fifteen bushels of garlic, which the land 

 produces all over America. This barley 

 came out of Virginia, as there is very little 

 raised near Baltimore, or wheat either, and 

 very little barley on the Eastern Shore. 

 There was a very great quantity of garlic on 



