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into fields with posts and rails, the wood-land 

 being in the proportion of one to ten of the ara 

 ble land, and there being on the farm a pretty 

 good orchard ; such a farm, if the land be in a 

 good state, and of an average quality, is worth 

 sixty dollars an acre, or thirteen pounds sterling; 

 of course, a farm of a hundred acres would cost 

 one thousand three hundred pounds. The rich 

 4ands on the necks and bays, where there are 

 meadows and surprizingly productive orchards, 

 and where there is water 'carriage, are worth, 

 in some cases, three times this price. But, 

 what I have said will be sufficient to enable the 

 reader to form a pretty correct judgment on the 

 subject. In New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, 

 every where the price differs with the circum 

 stances of water carriage, quality of land, and 

 distance from market. 



312. When I say a good farm-house, I mean 

 a house a great deal better than the general 

 run of farm-houses in England. More neatly 

 finished on the inside. More in a parlour sort 

 of style ; though round about the house, things 

 do not look so neat and tight as in England. 

 Even in Pennsylvania, and amongst the Qua 

 kers too, there is a sort of out-of-doors sloven 

 liness, which is never hardly seen in England. 

 You see bits of wood, timber, boards, chips, 

 lying about, here and there, and pigs and cattle 



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