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money sooner in those days, as those 

 grazing lands kept from one to two sheep 

 on an acre during the winter, and in the 

 summer from four to ten sheep on an acre ; 

 therefore, the month of May was the 

 time the additional number of sheep and 

 cattle was required ; and the money came 

 when it was wanted." When this is told 

 in America, I suppose they think it untrue ; 

 nor have the most sensible of them the 

 least idea what kind of land this may be, 

 The old gentleman, Mr. Boadley of Phila- 

 delphia, whom 1 have so frequently men- 

 tioned in this work, hearing this sort of 

 conversation from me, said, when I parted 

 vtith him, that he had never felt such a de- 

 sire to be young again as at the present 

 moment, to come along with me to England 

 to see all those things ; for although he had 

 read all the authors on the subject of agri- 

 culture, it had either escaped his attention, 

 or they had never mentioned the advan- 

 tages that I had pointed out to him. Nor 

 was General Washington any more in- 



