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other remarks of a similar tendency. I 

 surprised the General very much : and 

 Colonel Lear was present, who had been 

 in England ; and he mentioned his having 

 been with Mr. Young, who, he said, 

 called him a fool for being in trade with 

 so much land. The Colonel replied, that 

 if he had his land to till, it would 

 make a fool of him. I told the General 

 my father's wool on his farm, part of it 

 poor land, averaged nine pounds a fleece 

 of eleven hundred sheep upon five 

 hundred acres of land- and some part of 

 it two shillings and six- pence per acre ; 

 and his would not average more than 

 three pounds a fleece, on three thousand 

 acres with one hundred sheep. I have 

 heard say, that Colonel Lear remarked, 

 that he never knew any man speak with 

 so much candor to the Genera) as I did. 

 The General's opinion of his own land, 

 cattle, sheep, &c., was not at all like that 

 of a mar, of information. His sheep were 

 very shabby ones : the wool from his- sheep 



