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lity, is worth shty dollars an acre, or thirteen pounds 

 sterling ; of course, a i'arm of a hundred acres would 

 cost one thousand tliree hundred pounds. The rich 

 lands on the necks and bays, where there are meadoivs 

 and surprisingly productive orchards, and where there 

 is water carriacje, are worthy in some cases, three times 

 this price. But, what I have said will be sufficient to 

 enable the reader to form a pretty correct judgment on 

 the subject. In New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, every 

 where the price differs with the circumstances of water 

 carriage, quality of land, and distance from market. 



312. When 1 say a good farm-house, I mean a 

 house a great deal better than the cfeneral run of farm- 

 houses in England. More neatly finished on the 

 inside. More in a parlour sort of style ; though round 

 about the house, things do not look so neat and 

 tight as in England. Even in Pennsylvania, and 

 amongst the Quakers too, there is a sort of out-ol- 

 doors sloveidiness, which is never hardly seen in 

 England. You see bits of wood, timber, boards, chips, 

 lyiug about, here and there, and pigs and cattl^ tramp- 

 ling about in a sort of confusion, which would make an 

 English farmer fret himself to death; but which is here 

 seen with great placidness. The out-buildings, except 

 the barns, and except in the finest counties of Penn- 

 sylvania, are not so numerous, or so capacious, as in 

 England, in proportion to the size of the farms. The 

 reason is, that the tceather is so dry. Cattle need not 

 covering a twentieth part so much as in England, ex- 

 cept hogs, who must be warm as well as dry. However, 

 these share with the rest, and very little covering they 

 get. 



313. Labour is the great article of expense upon a 

 t'ann ; vet it is not nearly so great as in England, in 

 proportion to the amount of the produce of a farm, 

 especially if the poor-rates be, in both eases, included. 

 However, speaking of the positive wages, a good 

 *"<m-labourer has twenty-five pounds sterling a-year 

 and his board and lodging ; and a good day-labourer 

 has, upon an average, a dollar a day. A woman 

 servant^ in a farm-house, has from forty to fifty dollars 

 a year, or eleven pounds sterling. These are. the 



