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few bunches of orchard-grass, which Mr* 

 Grimes valued much, saying he meant to 

 preserve the seed, as he found the roots of 

 that grass to stand the winter. All this 

 added little to my prospects as a farmer in 

 America. After Mr. Grimes was gone, the 

 pilot on board the ship said, " Sir, you have 

 come very well off with your friend Grimes; 

 you have got back alive : he sometimes 

 shoots his friends, when they do not please 

 him," I found this to be true : for some 

 time afterward I became acquainted with 

 the two gentlemen that took him for the 

 crime; and, from the story they tell, it 

 appears he acted as if crazy after he had 

 shot the man ; therefore, on his trial, he 

 was proved insane, but I did not learn 

 from the gentlemen that he was ever so 

 before he shot the man, or has been so 

 since. 



In two days after we left this place, we 

 came in sight of Mount- Vernon ; but in all 

 the way up the river, I did not see any 

 green fields. The country had to me a 



