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kets on the floor of the dining room laf 
night. At American inns, ajl the gentle- 
men in the houfe breakfaft and dine toge- 
ther. ‘There were between twenty and 
thirty this mornige fat down at our table ; 
being Americans, Englifhmen,. Irifhmen, 
Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Scotchmen, and 
Weft. Indians. 
I cannot yet form any idea how far this 
town will afford fufficient profpeéts for me 
to fettle here. Harrifburg, on the Sufque- 
hannah, does not; a place whicn I think 
I told yon was mentioned to me.- Indeed 
I do not wifh (unlefs I can very material- 
ly better myfelf by fo doing) to fettle fo 
near the fea as this townis. The climate is 
net fo good, and the fituation is not fo fa- 
vourable for agriculture. 
Every account agrees, that no part of 
the United States is equal to Kentucky in 
point of foil, nor fuperior to it in point 
of fociety (except the large towns) 5; but 
how far it will anfwer my views and pur- 
fuits is another queftion. I have the pro- 
ipect of being accompanied to the Ohio by 
a very agreeable gentleman of Lancafter, in 
Pennfylvania, and there will be abundance 
of company in going down the river. 
There is but little publicnews. There 
8 no profpeét of a war. The Americans 
differ much in their interpretation of their 
treaty with Francé, ag to the obligation it 
may lay them under, of permitting the 
French to fit out privateers in their ports. 
Few are for war. The Virginians are al- 
moft univerfally ardent in the French caufe ; 
but the Pennfylvanians, more cold-hearted 
and felfifh, though they profefs to with 
well to France, in fact, I believe, care 
but little about the matter; but, it is 
among them, however, that the moft vio- 
dent party exits. 
Extra&is from my Memorandums. 
Hacar’s Town, in Maryland, has a 
Market twice a week. Wheat at 3s. a 
bufhel ; potatoes 15 to 18d. a bufhel ; but- 
ter 6d.; cheefegid.; fugar, brown, 74d. ; 
dearer than ufual on account of the trou- 
bles in the Weft-Indies ;- port-wine one 
dollar and a half per gallon; Madeira 
three dollars; cyder 3d. a gallon; beef 
2d. per pound, average ; mutton 2d. ; 
veal 1dd.; candles 74d; fowls 3d, each; 
imported cloathing 75l. per cent. above 
prime coft; female fervants 2s. 3d. per 
week. Climate healthful. Number of 
inhabitants in the town 2000-or more; 
mofily Germans. There are about fix 
fadlers fhops ; two leather breeches-ma- 
kers 5 two copperimiths; ten black(miths 
Letters from Mr. Toulmin of Kentucky. 
‘or ten miles from the town. 
[July ry 
four gun (rifle) fmiths ; two earthen-ware 
manufactories ; two tin workers; fix hat- 
ters ; five tan-yards ; three blue dyers for 
cotton and yarn; one fulling-mill: three 
nail-manufactories. Houfes of worfhip, 
one German Lutheran, one German Cal- 
vinift, one Englifh Epifcopalian, one Ro- 
man Catholic. There is a weekly paper ; 
and fifty Baltimore papers every week ; 
and fifty German papers from Lancafter. 
Agricultural. 
Soil, a dark loam, about fix inches deep, 
when you come to a light coloured clay ; 
which being ploughed up and mixed with 
the foil, renews it when exhaufted ; under 
the clay, limeftone. The cattle require 
fodder, from the middle or latter end of 
November, to the middle or latter end of 
April, The price of eftates (half being 
cleared, and there fhould be no more) from 
fixteen to twenty-four dollars per aere, ac- 
cording to the improvements, within eight 
Cows, in the 
{pring, foon after calving, 3]. Hufband- 
nen five or fix dollars, with board, per 
month. Market for produce, Baltimore, 
where the wheat. gets 7d. a bufhel more 
than at Alexandria; but the opening of 
the Potowmac will caufe an alteration by 
drawing capitals to Alexandria, or the 
Federal city: 5s. per barrel (196lb.) has 
been the expence of carriage to Balti- 
more. 
Baltimore, O&. 2, 1793. 

LETTER V. 
“I VERY much queftion whether there 
be fo good a profpeét of a fchool at Balti- 
more, as the gentleman imagined who 
propofed it. The gentlemen at Winchef- 
ter (XN informed me, fhe has been 
told) willaffure me a £100 a year, that is 
£75 fterling, if I choofe to undertake a 
fchool there, and it will go nearly as far 
as twice the fum here: but I with to de- 
termine upon nothing, till I have been te 
Kentucky. The fever at Philadelphia 
ftill rages in the fame degree ; but it does 
not {pread into the neighbourhood. Every 
means are taken to prevent its communi- 
cation. ‘Thirty thoufand perfons are faid 
to have left the city. : 
The American funds are juft fomewhat 
higher than they have been, though you 
may buy in very advantageoufly yet: for 

Americans can difpofe of their money fo 
much the more profitably, that they are not 
fatished with £6 percent. and thediftrefles 
in the commercial world in Europe have 
made the Europeans want their money. 
But the moft eligible method is not to buy 
, im 
