48 GEXESEE FLATS. 



season and are paid by the piece, generally 

 accomplishing the shearing of his flock of 2000 

 sheep in the course of one week, but from the 

 description I had of it the work is but rough 

 ly done. 



Having on the first day of my sojourn here 

 inspected Colonel Wordsworth s farm, I rode 

 out with him again on the 22d, and took a 

 circuit of twenty miles over this enchant 

 ing country of upland and meadow, already 

 one of the most beautiful and only requiring 

 a proper application of agricultural skill to be 

 rendered one of the most productive in the 

 world. As conveying some idea of the vigo 

 rous vegetation the soil is capable of sustaining, 

 I may mention that in the course of our ride 

 I saw in Colonel Wordsworth s meadows an 

 oak tree which I measured and found to be 

 fifteen yards in circumference near the ground. 



The Genesee flats, of which as already ob 

 served these meadows are a portion, are 100 

 miles in length and from three to four in 

 breadth, thus perhaps exceeding in extent 

 any continuous tract of equally fertile land in 



