yet were greatly superior in fatness, and their 

 weight lay in better parts. He shewed me 

 his farm-yard, which was a very complete 

 place for America, but not worth describ- 

 ing in this work. Among other things, he 

 shewed me some ears of Indian corn, which 

 had nine hundred corns on the ear - 9 and 

 he gave me one which I brought to Eng- 

 land. 



I believe Mr. Morgan to be one of the 

 jftost industrious gentlemen-farmers in that 

 country. He follows the plough with the 

 rest of his people, and told me he never 

 saw but one man (who was an English- 

 man) that laid the land so well as himself 

 with the plough. He showed me some of 

 the red peas so much famed in America, 

 and the same sort I had been informed of 

 by Mr. Jefferson, the president. He gave 

 me some of them to eat for dinner ; but as 

 to their flavour, I cannot say much about it, 

 the cook having made them so hot with 

 pepper, as to taste of nothing else. He 

 gave me some of these red peas, and some 



