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150 sheep, at $3, 450 



140 hogs, 500 



40 horses and mules, $60, 2,400 



6 ox carts, 3 tumbrils, 8 wagons, 2 log do., . . 1,000 



13 plows, at $15, 195 



Other tools, 1,500 



$193,295 

 The simple interest upon all this, at 7 per cent., would 

 produce the snug little annual income of $13,530.65. But 

 the sales amounted to $17,300, for corn and wheat last 

 year, $3,870 more than simple interest, from which, how- 

 ever, the current expenses must be deducted. The amount 

 of these, I have not now on hand. Mr. B.'s people are all 

 well fed and clothed, and have excellent houses, which, 

 unlike the more southern fashion, are all scattered over 

 the place — a plan that is, in some respects, preferable to 

 that of congregating them in villages. 



Many of the roads through the place are lined with red 

 cedars, which make beautiful drives, and fine shades for 

 man and beast, and add greatly to the beauty of the 

 scene. The whole farm can be viewed from the observa- 

 tory, on the barn, and including the river and opposite 

 shore, covered with forest and underlaid with immense 

 beds of shell marl, with Jamestown Island in the distance, 

 it presents a scene of surpassing beauty. One of the 

 curiosities of this old farm, is a box hedge, some ten or 

 twelve rods long, twenty feet high, and very thick, which 

 has exhibited the same appearance for the last hundred 

 years. Solon Robinson. 



Letter to Leila Robinson 



[Daily Cincinnati Gazette, June 13, 1849] 



(Near) Alexandria, Va., Sunday, June 3, 1849. 



Miss Leila Robinson : — My Dear Little Girl. — Not hav- 

 ing an opportunity to get the letter written to Josephine,^ 



' Josephine Eobinson, Leila's sister. 



