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that, when it has taken its fill frcm the 

 animal, the place bleeds a moderate quan- 

 tity after, which must reduce him very 

 much. Then, in the winter, it is so cold, 

 that a horse requires high feeding to sup- 

 port him. From these natural causes, the 

 reader may be easily led to believe there are 

 great inconveniences. Mules are the best 

 for use in these countries : General Wash- 

 ington worked nothing else. The reason 

 why I have explained so much in this part, 

 is, that these farmers are not tobacco-growers 

 on the Eastern Shore ; and the only pro- 

 duce is Indian corn, grain, and pork : very 

 little fat cattle produced here, or sheep. It 

 may be worthy of remark, that the grain 

 raised in those parts of America passes 

 through a number of hands before it comes 

 to the consumer, which must lessen the 

 grower's gains. He first sends it one or 

 two hundred miles, and from that to eight 

 hundred miles, to market, and commissions 

 a man to sell it : then the miller gets hold 

 of it : there is a cask to put the flour ia. 



