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not in some seasons raise so much from 

 his land as would keep his people, with the 

 addition of a very numerous iishery. And 

 although the reader may think my calcula- 

 tions low on the American produce, he 

 may see, in the letters published by Arthur 

 Young, Esq. andSir J. Sinclair, that General 

 Washington's calculation on the average 

 of the crops In Virginia is no more than 

 eight bushels per acre : and it is not to be 

 supposed that General Washington would 

 state them at the lowest ; as he frequently 

 sent proposals to England, to let liis farms 

 to English or Scotch farmers : his own opi- 

 nion on the American soils was, that the 

 small produce was in consequence of a want 

 of cultivation. And his information from 

 this country was very erroneous : for he 

 told me that he had sent a fleece of wool 

 to Arthur Young, Esq. v/ho sent it to 

 some manufacturing town in England, and 

 wrote him back that it was found 

 equal in quantity and quality to the aver- 

 age of the wool in England, with many 



