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SECTION V. 



The third Tour to mew the Wheat Crops and 

 other Things, in June and July, in some well- 

 cultivated Parts of America. Containing 

 several Remarks on Fruit ; on the Manage- 

 ment of Soil ; on reaping and harvesting of 

 Wheat by the Cradle and Sickle, 8$c f 



HAVING got the sorn planted, the potatoes 

 set, &c. I took a tour of about three hundred 

 miles into what is termed the Eastern shore, 

 which lies by the bay side, called the penin- 

 sula of Chesapeak, to view the crops of 

 wheat ; as that is a great wheat country* 

 I had been told this is the best farming 

 country in America : and I think it the best 

 large tract of land I ever saw there ; it 

 being not so broken, or guuied, as all other 

 p^irts are, though not quite free from that 

 condition. 



I went by way of Anapolis : where I saw 

 some very beautiful Indian corn, intended 



