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garden to see whether any of the plants, which 

 lay in heaps, were yet alive. 



2J7. Now, mind, the plants were put out on 

 the first of July ; the 15. succeeding days were 

 not only dry, but the very hottest of this glori 

 ously hot summer. The plants that had been 

 flung away were, indeed, nearly all dead; but, 

 some, which lay at the bottoms of the heaps, 

 were not only alive, but had shot their roots 

 into the ground. 1 resolved to plant out two 

 rows of these, even these. While I was at it 

 Mr. JUDGE MITCHELL called upon me. He 

 laughed at us very heartily. This was on the 

 8^ of July. I challenged him to take him 

 three to one my two rows against any two rows 

 of his corn of equal length ; and he is an excel 

 lent farmer on excellent land. " Then," said I, 

 " if you are afraid to back your opinion, I do 

 " not mind your laugh." 



218. On the 27th of August Mr. JUDGE 

 MITCHELL and his brother the justly celebrated 

 DOCTOR MITCHELL did me the honour to call 

 here. I was gone to the mill ; but they saw the 

 Corn. The next day I had the pleasure to meet 

 Doctor Mitchell, for the first time, at his bro 

 ther's ; and a very great pleasure it was ; for a 

 man more full of knowledge and apparently 

 less conscious of it, I never saw in my life. 

 But, the Cora : " What do you think of my 



