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from Dishley, and they weighed several of 

 them alive, and he weighed some of his, 

 when he returned home, and found his 

 sheep superior, in weight, at all ages, to 

 those of Mr. Saint- John, which were said 

 to have come from Dishley, in England. 



Mr. Saint -John had lived some time 

 with Mr. Bakewell. I have been in his 

 company : he is most heartily tired of his 

 situation ; but he has bought an estate, which 

 he is striving to sell, to return to England 

 again. It does not do him much credit, as 

 a pupil of Mr. Bakewell, to have bought 

 any American land that I ever saw ; for, 

 from my first landing, I never met with any 

 I would have accepted as a gift, to confine 

 me and my sons after me to live upon that 

 land and in that climate. 



To return to the sheep. I told Mr. 

 Morgan that was not any proof of the supe- 

 riority of his sheep. I would undertake to 

 buy a ram in England, for five pounds, that 

 should weigh, living," eighteen or twenty 

 stone (fourteen pounds to the stone) : but, 



