
          976.

When some distance beyond the charcoal burners, we met the doctor, himself
an old man 76 years of age.  He was seated in a very delapidated looking buggy.
His poor horse was a mass of skin and bones.  The doctor, seedily dressed looked
much like one of the most illiterate of rustics.  His failing eyesight caused him
to squint.  We soon found that the doctor was quite well educated and a very 
interesting man.  He was very sarcastic and this spoiled what otherwise would have been received with more appreciation.  The doctor no longer practices medicine,
but devotes his time to raising apples.  He feels very proud, that he has been able
to demonstrate that apple raising <s>I</s> can be made a success even in A. A. [Anne Arundel] county.
He did not care to discuss either religion or politics. Although he allowed and
felt sure that Adam (if he even existed) was a black man (because Adam means 
black, he would not here it that Christ was anything else but white. He did 
not care for the negro and would have nothing to do with him.  Speaking
about the Germans (whom I suppose he thought little better than negroes), he told
us that many of them, especially along the Rhine were very dark and gave the
following as the reason.  That at one time many years ago some Jews settled there
and that they had black servants, and that it was through inter-copulation with
these blacks that the resulting race became very dark.  He was anxious to find
what could be done to prevent a certain smut that appeared on his apples.
He had written to the agricultural college, and also to Washington, but neither
        