A 



YEAR'S RESIDENCE 



I.V THE 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; 



Treating of the face of the country, the climate, th£ 

 soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the lakd, 

 the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment j of 

 i he expenses of house-keeping and of the usual man- 

 sfr of living ] of the manners and customs of the peo- 

 n.v:; and, of the institutions of the country, cirir.^ 



i^OLITJCAL AND RELIGIOUS. 



IX THREE PARTS. 



BY WILLI AM ^COBBETT. 



PART I. 



ONTAINING, I. A DESCRIPTION OF THE FACE OF THE COUNTRY, 

 THE CLIMATE, THE SEASONS AND THE SOIL J THE FACTS 

 BEING TAKEN FROM THE AUTHOR'S DAILY NOTES DURING A 

 WHOLE YEAR. II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR's AGRICUL- 

 TURAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE CULTIVATION OF THE RUTA 

 BAGA, OR RUSSIA; OR SWEDISH, TURNIP, WHICH AFFORD 

 FROOF OF WHAT THE CLIMATE AND SOIL ARE. ^ 



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