32 SIZE OF GABLE-SIDES FARM. 



ing to about three hundred acres out of the 

 four hundred. The rest is pasture, meadow, 

 wood, or waste, including roads and paths. 



Most fields belonging to every large farm in 

 the United States have names, by which they are 

 designated ; such as the mill-lot, shop-lot, &LC. 

 These are generally derived from some pecu- 

 liarities of shape, soil, or situation. Some from 

 accidents, or incidents of life and husbandry. A 

 few are difficult to account for : but as our coun- 

 try has been recently settled, the origin of most 

 of our farm-lot names is well known. But in 

 England, it is otherwise. In that country par- 

 ticular lots are more commonly named than 

 with us : yet the occasion of their names has 

 been extensively lost. The farm of Gable-sides, 

 some account of which has been given, pre- 

 sents a curious specimen of the manner in which 



