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ing in his neighbourhood extensive flour mills 

 where he finds a ready market for his wheat, 

 Virginia flour being in high estimation all over 

 the States. 



My time being limited I had it not in my 

 power to examine any other farm in this quar 

 ter, although I was told that, forty or fifty 

 miles up the James river, there are to be seen 

 many fine farms on a large scale ; in fact I 

 might easily have passed a month in pursuing 

 agricultural enquiries in this State. 



In returning to Richmond I visited an ex 

 tensive cotton mill on James river, at which 

 both white and black children are employed in 

 discriminately, and they all appeared healthy, 

 clean, and comfortable, and as far as I could 

 judge the concern seemed to be well conducted. 



After having satisfied myself with the sights 

 of Richmond its commanding situation on 

 the banks of James river ; its State house on 

 the rising ground to which the city extends ; 

 its bridges of singular construction ; its theatre 

 and court-house ; its wharves, canal, and large 

 basin in the centre of the town ; and above 



