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are seldom destroyed by that insect. On 

 the whole he concluded, there was nothing 

 to be got by growing wheat in that part of 

 the country. He shewed me his sheep ; 

 which were from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and as fine as ever I saw of that sort, and 

 in good condition : but the number, 

 though six hundred acres of land in the 

 farm, was only sixteen sheep. In general, 

 the sheep kept are merely to grow wool for 

 making negroes' stockings, a little lamb and 

 mutton for themselves, and some few for 

 the butcher ; as no part of America is 

 proper for sheep, that I ever saw. 



I again returned to Baltimore ; and met 

 with a Mr. O'Donnell, who, having been 

 informed of me, desired me to be intro- 

 duced to him being himself confined to 

 his bed with the gout. Though I had be- 

 gun to entertain a very low opinion of the 

 American lands, he still lowered it more ; 

 for he told me that he had brought between 

 sixty and seventy thousand pounds sterling 

 from the East-Indies into America, and 



