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^s good hedges here as they do at Farn- 

 ham, in Surry. But, in another Pa^t, I 

 shall give full information upon this head. 

 — Here my escort quitted me ; but, 

 luckily, Mr. Newbold, who lives at about 

 ten miles nearer Trenton than Mr. Taylof 

 does, brought me on to his house. He is 

 a much better gardener, or, rather, to 

 speak the truth, has succeeded a better, 

 whose example he has followed in part. 

 But, his farm yard and buildings ! This 

 was a sight indeed ! Forty head of horn- 

 cattle in a yard, enclosed with a stone 

 w^all ; and five hundred merino Ewes, 

 besides young lambs, in the finest, most 

 spacious, best contrived and most sub- 

 stantially built sheds 1 ever saw. The 

 barn surpassed all that I had seen before. 

 His house (large, commodious and hand- 

 some) stands about two hundred yards 

 from the turnpike road, leading from 

 Philadelphia to New-York, looks on and 

 over the Delaware, which runs parallel 

 with the road, and has, surrounding it, 

 and at the back of it, five hundred acres 

 of land, level as a lawn, and two feet deep 

 m loam, that never requires a water- 

 furrow. This was the finest sight that I 

 ever saw as to farm buildings and land.— 

 I forgot to observe, that I saw, in Mr. 

 Taylor's service, another man, recently 

 arrived from England. A Yorkshire man. 

 He, too, wished to see me. , He had got 

 some ofm}^ '■^little books,^^ which, he had 

 preserved, and brought out with him. Mr. 

 Taylor, was much pleased with him. An 

 active, smart man ; and, if he follow my 

 advice, to remain a year under one roof, 

 and save his wages, he will, in a few 



