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in summer on clover, as no grass would 

 grow : in the winter on clover-hay. He 

 then raised one hundred acres of clover; 

 but when the part meadowed was ready to 

 cut, there could not be found a sufficient 

 number of mowers for the purpose: the men 

 he had got would not get the work forward : 

 he was then compelled to assist in mowing, 

 and all his family in making the hay ; his 

 eldest daughter, who in England had learnt 

 to play on the harpsichord, &c. was a hay- 

 maker. He became tired of this sort of 

 sport, left his estate to manage itself, and 

 set up as a soap-boiler in the city of Balti- 

 more: now it is to be considered that he 

 has this business to learn, and is subject 

 to great loss or waste. His two sons are 

 making soap : the eldest daughter is gone to 

 service as tutor to a gentleman's daughters : 

 some part of 'the family remains at the 

 farm ; but, instead of cultivating it, which 

 they found so unprofitable, they buy eggs, 

 butter, geese, ducks, turkeys, fowls, &c, 

 send them to Baltimore, and keep a wag- 

 gon continually going backwards and for- 



