CHAP. L] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 79 



1818. 



March 11. land, which, if I had wanted any 

 proof, would have clearly proved to 

 me, that they would, with less care, 

 make as good hedges here as they do 

 at Farnham in Surrey. But, in an 

 other PART, I shall give full informa 

 tion upon this head. Here my escort 

 quitted me ; but, luckily, Mr. NEW- 

 BOLD, who lives about ten miles 

 nearer Trenton than Mr. Taylor 

 does, brought me on to his house. 

 He is a much better gardener, or, 

 rather, to speak the truth, has suc 

 ceeded a better, whose example he 

 has followed in part. But, his 

 farm yard and buildings ! This was 

 a sight indeed ! Forty head of horn- 

 cattle in a yard, enclosed with a 

 stone wall ; and five hundred me 

 rino ewes, besides young lambs, in 

 the finest, most spacious, best con 

 trived, and most substantially built 

 sheds I ever saw. The barn sur 

 passed all that I had seen before. 

 His house (large, commodious, and 

 handsome) stands about two hun 

 dred yards from the turnpike road, 

 leading from Philadelphia to New 

 York, looks on and over the Dela- 



