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Alexandria, to see my family, horses, cat- 

 tle, &c. 



After a few days, I went into the coun- 

 try to see Colonel Lyles and some other 

 gentlemen ; and then set off to Baltimore. 

 In my journey I slept at Major Sriowdon's, 

 a very hospitable man indeed. He showed 

 me a bull of his, a stud horse, and some 

 different things ; but nothing of any superior 

 value, except a pair of coach-horses. I 

 arrived at Baltimore ; and^ soon afterward 

 set off to see General Ridgely's farm. 



On my way I was introduced, by a Mr. 

 Thomas Ringold, to a Mr. Gittings, who 

 lives fourteen miles from Baltimore, a gen- 

 tleman of property and of good informa- 

 tion. He has the finest timothy-meadows 

 that are in America ; and knows how to 

 treat them better than any other man I ever 

 met with, either there or in England. 

 He told me an anecdote of his first gaining 

 the proper idea. He used to cut his timo- 

 thy-meadow as those meadows are in gene- 

 ral cut, viz. when they were in flower; 

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