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acres to be managed by the plough, and 

 will leave five acres of land every year, 

 not worth the taxes, or at all to be reckon- 

 ed on There are hundreds of acres be- 

 tween Queen Ann and Alexandria, which 

 have produced the finest tobacco in Ame- 

 rica, but which I should not choose to 

 accept as a gift. The English reader may 

 suppose that the land will bear something 

 after : but it will produce no useful plant 

 whatever. There is here and there a sort 

 of sedge, of which they make besoms ; it 

 is very indifferent even for that : and as 

 there are no live fences, I think such lands 

 will all go wild again. In every calcula- 

 tion made of the cultivation and produce it 

 appears plainly, that, if there be any thing 

 got, it is pinched out of the negro. From 

 tobacco there is a chance, if the crop be 

 good, and the market high, for a man to put 

 a few hundred pounds into his pocket; 

 which has been the case ; but it never will 

 be done by English fanning. 



