told them one farmer had six hundred acres 

 of wheat the year I came there, which pro- 

 duced thirty-two bushels per acre and 

 that there was one piece of land of six thou- 

 dred acres in a rabbit warren at Brand in 

 Norfolk and that Mr. Barker in Norfolk 

 entered one hundred and twenty-four horses 

 to plough with, when the tax was laid on 

 horses for husbandry, they were astonished 

 (and well they might, since England takes 

 up so small a space in the map of Europe) ; 

 and probably great part of them thought it 

 untrue. But those who knew me were 

 curious enough to wish to see those things. 

 Those Americans who have been in Eng- 

 land know little or nothing about it : they 

 are brought in a ship to some sea-port, 

 made drunk, put into a mail coach, and 

 driven from one manufacturing town to 

 another, and carried about like a bagged 

 fox; they go to London, are taken to the 

 plays, and other evening amusements fre- 

 quented in town : and when one of these 

 travellers returns to Americahis friends meet 



