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three feet deep, inclining to a peaty nature, and having a simi- 

 lar sub-soil to the above. The soil of the rest is a sandy loam, 

 with a sub-soil not very dissimilar, and borders upon the river. 

 The soil of the island is a sandy loam, and in digging a well, 

 I find the sub-soil very similar for twenty feet. Two thirds 

 of the surface of the island is elevated about twenty feet above 

 the bed of the river, and more than half the time for the last 

 forty years, has been improved for raising corn, rye, and oats. 

 The other third is ten or twelve feet lower, and about seven- 

 teen acres is now covered with a variety of wood, consisting 

 of yellow birch, grey oak, elm, bass, maple and walnut. The 

 wood upon the remaining seven acres was cut off in 1846, and 

 most of this lot, with the preceding, is usually overflowed 

 with water, iu the spring freshets. 



The soil of the pasture in Haverhill, is a gravelly loam, of a 

 reddish cast, and the sub-soil I have not examined. It is said 

 to be the highest elevation in the county, with one or two ex- 

 ceptions. 



The buildings, at the time of my purchase, consisted of a 

 large two story dwelling house, with an L attached, finished 

 to accommodate the help required to carry on the farm, an old 

 barn one hundred feet by forty-five, twelve feet post, and very 

 inconvenient, a horse-barn about forty by twenty feet, with car- 

 riage house in the same, and cellar under a part ; granary two 

 stories, twenty by thirty feet, and a piggery ; also, a barn 

 on the island, thirty-two by sixty feet, and twenty foot po^t. 

 Last year I took down the old barn, and sold the building used 

 for a granery, both of which were ill adapted for the purposes 

 intended, and built a new barn, seventy-five by forty feet, and 

 twenty-six foot post. This barn is situated on the side hill, 

 about one hundred feet north east of the dwelling house, and 

 has two drive ways through the centre lengthwise, twelve feet 

 wide. The upper drive way is thirteen feet above the lower, 

 and is conveniently entered by means of a platform, or bridge, 

 twenty feet in length, and supported at the lower end by a 

 breast wall, ten feet high, the side hill being excavated to a 

 level with the lower floor to afford a convenient entrance to 

 the barn yard, and lower floor, which is used for feeding the 



