ADDRESS. 11 



describe a visit which I made to Benjamin Brown, Esq., a tenant 

 farmer in Tunbridge, Kent. I told liim tliat I came for informa- 

 tion, and was welcomed witli tliat warm Englisli Iiospitality so 

 grateful to a stranger. He insisted upon my making his house my 

 home. 



When liis boys returned from their work, the daughters and 

 motlier had prepared an cxceHent supper. I found tlicm all full 

 of culture and taste, devouring with avidity such information as I 

 could impart about our country. I forgot what became of the 

 evening in this lovely family, till I was asked to join in a hymn of 

 praise to God in one of our well known airs. Then one of the 

 daughters took the organ as easily as she took the frying pan three 

 hours before. After kneeling in prayer I was ushered to my sleep- 

 ing room, "neat as wax," with quaint old furniture. Before I dozed 

 and slept I came to this conclusion, that if five righteous men could 

 have saA^d Sodom, England, with all her sins, was still safe. 



Cock crowing and turkey gobbling were my breakfast bell; 

 afterwards came the routine of the evening prayer system every 

 where ] the morning hours, measured and divided as our own ex- 

 istence is spanned by an Almighty Power. 



One of the daughters invited me to visit her flower garden. I 

 hope if she ever visits me it will be in the winter. 



Mr. Brown now took me over his farm. Like most English soil 

 it had the curse of entail upon it. But as it was much run down 

 when he took it, he succeeded in getting a lease from his landlord 

 for thirty-five years, for £150 per annum. 



To make the farm more profitable, he had himself expended 

 during the eight years, more or less, while he had occupied it, 

 £3000 more, so that calling his investment five per cent., his rent 

 would be £300, or $1500 our money per annum, which does not 

 include loss or betterments at the end of his lease. His farm was 

 divided as follows : to wit, twenty-five acres were growing hops, 

 with old woolen rags for manure ; forty acres wheat, crop about 

 thirty-five bushels to the acre; thirty acres woodland, on which he 

 could only cut underwood, to be appraised at the end of lease ; 

 fifty-five acres meadow, or hay land, and pasturage. The cattle 

 which he raised were short horns, of which you see more both m 

 England and Ireland than of other breeds ; his horses were the 

 heavy Flanders, or Belgian breed, which he used on his farm al- 

 most exclusively ; his sheep were a cross of Leicester and Cots- 

 wolds ; yielding a fleece from eleven to thirteen pounds ; though he 

 regarded the South Downs, with a fleece of only six to seven 



