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as from their depth. These, with the various 

 trees which surround them, are very beautiful 

 indeed. 



15 The farms are so many plots originally 

 scooped out of woods ; though in King's and 

 Queen's counties the land is generally pretty 

 much deprived of the woods, which, as in every 

 other part of America that I have seen, are 

 beautiful beyond all description. The Walnut 

 of two or three sorts,, the Plane, the Hickory, 

 Chesnut, Tulip Tree, Cedar, Sassafras, Wild 

 Cherry (sometimes 60 feet high) ; more than 

 fifty sorts of Oaks ; and many other trees, but 

 especially the Flowering Locust, or Acacia, 

 which, in my opinion, surpasses all other trees, 

 and some of which, in this Island, are of a very 

 great height and girt. The Orchards constitute 

 a feature of great beauty. Every farm has its 

 orchard, and, in general, of cherries as well as 

 of apples and pears. Of the cultivation and 

 crops of these, I shall speak in another Part of 

 the work. 



16. There is one great draw-back to all these 

 beauties, namely, the fences ; and, indeed, 

 there is another with us South of England 

 people; namely, the general (for there are many 

 exceptions) slovenliness about the homesteads, 

 and particularly about the dwellings oj labourers. 

 Mr. BIRKBECK complains of this; and, indeed, 

 what a contrast with the homesteads and cot- 



