318 PRICES OF LAND, LABOUR, [PART II. 



CHAP. IX. 



f 



PRICES OF LAND, LABOUR, FOOD AND RAIMENT. 



310. LAND is of various prices, of course. 

 But, as I am, in this Chapter, addressing my 

 self to English Farmers, I am not speaking of 

 the price either of land in the wildernesses, or of 

 land in the immediate vicinage of great cities. 

 The wilderness price is two or three dollars an 

 acre : the city price four or five hundred. The 

 land at the same distance from New York that 

 Chelsea is from London, is of higher price than 

 the land at Chelsea. The surprizing growth of 

 these cities, and the brilliant prospect before 

 them, give value to every thing that is situated 

 in or near them. 



311. It is my intention, however, to speak only 

 of farming land. This, too, is, of course, affected 

 in its value by the circumstance of distance 

 from market; but, the reader will make his 

 own calculations as to this matter. A farm, 

 then, on this Island, any where not nearer than 

 thirty miles of, and not more distant than sixty 

 miles from, New York, with a good farm-house^ 

 barn, stables, sheds, and styes; the land fenced 



