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There were some other English gentlemen: 

 and among them a Doctor Jordine (a very 

 sensible and genteel man) and a Mr. Porter. 

 These two gentlemen went from Wales : 

 they had purchased an estate somewhere 

 on the Delaware ; they called it rich lands ; 

 and they have endeavoured, I am per- 

 suaded, to make it answer, as much as the 

 power of man could do ; but I have had 

 the pleasure of the Doctor's company since ; 

 and he is very weary of farming, and wants 

 to sell the estate and come back to England. 

 There was a Doctor Logan in company. 

 I went home with this gentleman. He is a 

 member of assembly at Lancaster ; and has 

 got a good estate near German-Town, on 

 which he and his family have been settled a 

 number of years. He asked me to get him 

 an English servant. I told him an English 

 servant would be of no use to him : as was 

 the truth ; for the cultivation varies so 

 much that the English servants are quite lost 

 in America. It is generally thought by the 

 Americans that the cause of their crops 



