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the principal villages, and a large number within 

 convenient distances in the country. Schools exist 

 in equal number ; while the villages and towns con 

 tain others of a better class, and sometimes acad 

 emies. The great need is an infusion of Northern 

 religious and educational elements. 



A farmer can do but little active work without 

 health. The country is, in general, pre-eminently 

 healthy, the climate being mild and regular. It is 

 recommended to all who are troubled with pul 

 monary or bronchial diseases incident to bleak and 

 changeable Northern latitudes. Preachers, who had 

 been compelled by these affections to abandon the 

 pulpit, have been enabled to resume it after a few 

 months residence in Delaware. It has also advan 

 tages, in point of healthfulness, over more newly 

 settled regions, in being less subject to chills and 

 fever. Good soft water abounds, at from ten to 

 twenty feet. All fruits and vegetables can be 

 raised for very early market. A week or two at 

 the beginning of a season, is sometimes worth 

 thousands to the truckman. Ploughing can gen 

 erally be done all through the winter. 



There is almost every variety of soil, most of 

 which may be said to be the natural home of the 

 peach and sweet potato. Major Anthony Reybold 

 has netted 20,000 in one season from peaches. 

 Mr. George Parrish, from 9,000 trees, occupying 

 ninety acres, in 1863, netted $10,000. The tree 

 is here free from the blights that affect it in the 

 North, thus it lives and thrives for many years. 

 Sweet potatoes produce enormously, as much as 



