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that at the mansion-house. These four contain three thousand two 

 hundred and sixty acres of cultivable land, to which some hundreds 

 more, adjoining, as may be seen, might be added, if a greater quantity 

 should be required; but as they were never designed for, so neither 

 can it be said they are calculated to suit, tenants of either the 

 first, or of the lower class; because those who have the strength 

 and resources proportioned to farms of from five hundred to twelve 

 hundred acres (which these contain), would hardly be contented to live 

 in such houses as are thereon: and if they were to be divided and sub- 

 divided, so as to accommodate tenants of small means, say from fifty 

 to one or two hundred acres, there would be none, except on the 

 lots which might happen to include the present dwelling-houses of my 

 overlookers (called bailiffs with you), barns, and negro-cabins: nor 

 would I choose to have the woodland (already too much pillaged of 

 its timber) ransacked, for the purpose of building many more\7/';The 

 soil, however, is excellent for bricks, or for mud-walls; and to^the 

 building of such houses there would be no limitation, nor to that of 

 thatch for the cover of them. 



The towns already mentioned (to those who might incline to en- 

 counter the expense), are able to furnish scantling, plank, and 

 shingles, to any amount, and on reasonable terms; and they afford a 

 ready market also for the produce of the land. 



On what is called Union Farm (containing nine hundred and 

 twenty-eight acres of arable and meadow) , there is a newly erected 

 brick barn, equal, perhaps, to any in America, and for conveniences 

 of all sorts, particularly for sheltering and feeding horses, cattle, 

 &c. scarcely to be exceeded anywhere. A new house is now building in 

 a central position, not far from the barn, for the overlooker, which 

 will have two rooms, sixteen by eighteen ^fe^t, below, and one or two 

 above nearly of the same size. Convenientr,thefeto, is sufficient ac- 

 commodation for fifty odd negroes, old and young; but these buildings 

 might not be thought good enough for the workmen, or day-labourers, 

 of your country. 



Besides these, a little without the limits of the farm (as 

 marked in the plan) are one or two other houses, very pleasantly 

 situated, and which, in case this farm should be divided into two (as 

 it formerly was), would answer well for the eastern division. The 

 buildings thus enumerated, are all that stand on the premises. 



Dogue Run Farm (six hundred and fifty acres) has a small, but 

 new building for the overlooker; one room only below, and the same 

 above, sixteen by twenty feet each; decent and comfortable for^its 

 size. It has also covering for forty odd negroes, similar to what is 



