* INTRODUCTION. 



lands in America and those of England, in 

 two respects. 



First, in the article of sheep. He sup- 

 posed himself to have fine sheep, and a 

 great quantity of them. At the time of 

 my viewing his five farms, which consisted 

 of about three thousand acres cultivated, he 

 had one hundred sheep, and those in very 

 poor condition. This was in the month 

 of November. To show him his mistake 

 in the value and quality of his land, I com- 

 pared this with the farm my father occu- 

 pied, which was less than six hundred acres. 

 He clipped eleven hundred sheep, though 

 some of his land was poor and at two 

 shillings and sixpence per acre the highest 

 was at twenty shillings ; the average weight 

 of the wool was ten pounds per fleece, and 

 the carcases weighed from eighty to one 

 hundred and twenty pounds each : while 



