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have been painful to me : it is, in fact, a 

 sort of trade of itself. 



I had not in all this time seen what we 

 in England call a corn-stack, nor a dung- 

 hill. 'There were, indeed, behind one of 

 the General's barns, two or three cocks of 

 oats and barley ; but such as an English 

 broad-wheeled waggon would have carried 

 a hundred miles at one time with ease. 

 Neither had I seen a green plant of any 

 kind : there was some clover of the first 

 year's sowing : but in riding over the 

 fields I should not have known it to be 

 clover, although the steward told me it was; 

 only when I came under a tree I could, by 

 favour of the shade, perceive here and there 

 a green leaf of clover, but I do not remem- 

 ber seeing a green root. I was shown no 

 grass-hay of any kind ; nor do I believe 

 there was any. The cattle were very 

 poor and ordinary, and the sheep the same; 

 nor did I see any thing that I liked except 

 the mules, which were very fine ones, and 



