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in which barley is delivered in America, 

 and especially in Virginia, adds very much , 

 in measure : they never take the beard off; 

 and frequently half an ear, or sometimes a 

 whole one unbroken, is delivered ; so I do 

 not think that more than fifteen bushels 

 ought to be estimated, and very great quan- 

 tities of garlic amongst it. The English- 

 man told me, that, during the twenty-two 

 years he had served General Ridgely and 

 his uncle, they never but once had one hun- 

 dred bushels of potatoes on an acre : fifty 

 bushels was their general crop: wheat, rye, 

 or oats, from four to six bushels ; barley 

 very little raised. Indeed General Ridgely 

 told me himself at breakfast, a few morn- 

 ings before I left the country, that he did 

 not make the taxes of his estate, though it 

 is accounted one of the best in America. 

 I have been told the very same thing by 

 several other gentlemen. 



