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vaicrimination to be oaiteodas in their cha- 
acter; ab uno difce omnes. Where, .in- 
sdeed, one objeét is almoft invariably pur- 
fued, the means of attainment will be ge- 
abcitly uniform. Sufpended between bar- 
barifm and civilization, it too frequently 
happens, that the mind is not fo ftronely 
anfluenced by virtue, as attracted by the 
snagnetifm of vice; but in this view it 
does not appear that they are worfe than 
#heir neighbours. Though their.ideas are 
confined within narrow limits, their minds 
are capable of receiving that improve- 
ment and expanfion, which are difcernible 
in more poliffied and refined focieties. 
To the Editar of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
T is a great fatisfa‘tion to your agri- 
: cultural readers, to fee in your Maga- 
zine an accqunt of what pafies at fuch 
Meetings as thofe at Woburn, the Chritt- 
anas- market, Lord Sanibivitte s, &c. but 
perhaps if the writers of thefe communica- 
tions would confine themfelves to a plain 
fiatement of faéts, it would be much bet- 
‘ter, than to make fuch unfortunate con- 
elufions, as in the Account of Lord So- 
merville’s Shew. As to the merit of the 
Glamorgan, compared with the Devon 
or Hereford oxen, allowinz the latter 
breeds all the excellence they poflefs, it 
‘does not appear that a fair trial was 
made, as thele were choice oxen of each 
defcription, while the Glamorgan was ve. 
ry far, as the writer fays, from a capital 
individual cf that breed ; however, leaving 
the exen to better judges than myfelf, I 
mut take the liberty of fetting the writer 
and your readers right, with regard to 
‘what is faid on the fubjeé&t of grafs-feeds. 
Giving Mr. Gibbs his fhare of commenda- 
tion tor his attention to this important 
{and to him, without doubt, profitable) - 
1ubject, yet I cannot go fo far as to allow 
him all the praife which is beftowed, as I 
well know that Mr. G. is not the firft who 
undertook the difficult tafk of feleting the 
various kinds of natural grafs-feeds. 
Twelve years ago, a perfon made this ex- 
periment, colleéting the various graffes as 
they grew in the fields, and then cultivat- 
ing them feparately, till he has been ena- 
bled to lay down many acres with feed of 
his own growth, and to difpofe of a con- 
fderabie quantity for three or four years 
peff, to his friends, and to Mr. G. him- 
feif. 
I do not ftate this to leffen Mr. G's 
real merit, but merely to render jutiice to 
ene of the mott indefatigable and beft 
Graf ie Si ha of the City of Wafhington. [June 1, 
practical farmers I know. I have no 
doubt that the feeds fold by Mr. G. are 
of the fpecified varieties. Your's, &c. 
5- » April, 1803. EVN. 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
DESCRIPTION of the CITY of WASHING- 
Ton, the new Seat of Government of 
the United States of North Americas 
swith Obfervations.on the probable natu- 
ral Causes of its future Rije or Decay— 
by a Vifitant. 
“HE {cite of the City of Wathingtor 
TI is a -traét of ground lymg between 
the fork of the eaftern and weltern branches 
of the River Potowumac, which, at their 
confluence, form an obtufe apgle. This 
ground was originally covered with foreft- 
trees, and ds fiill fo, except thofe {pous 
which’ have been cleared to¥make way fur 
buildings. ‘The :ctty ,commences at the 
point .of confluence, and diverges from 
thence eaftwardly and weltwardly, from 
one branch to the other, aad northwardly 
to their fources. -Gn the fide, which as 
nat bounded by ‘either branch, dies ithe 
open country, fo that the city may ‘pro- 
ceed to a valt extent, unchecked by any 
other fetthement, except George’ Towns 
which oceupies a part’ of this triangular 
piece of ground, upon the weitern branch, 
‘@ little above the corfluence. It is fepa- 
rated from Wathington by avery fimaid 
ereek, and is’now become, as uf were, a 
fuburb of it. * The lines for the ftreets, 
according to the plandrawn by Mr. El- 
licott, the State’s Surveyor, have been cut 
through the foreft. They ran in a firaight 
diveshians from branch to branch, ak and 
weit, and are interfeGed by others, crofling 
them at right angles, north and fouth. 
Thofe leading to the grand avenues are 
laid out from one hundred and.thirty to 
one hunded and fixty feet in width, the 
others from ninety to one hundred and ten 
“feet. 
Wafhington wears, at prefettywathen : 
grotefque, ‘than picturefque, figure. The 
different proprietors and purcuafers have 
cleared the wood upon their own lands, 
and ereéted houfes, or parts of houles, 
leaving the adjacent ground to be cleared 
by thofe to whom it may hereafter belong; 
fo that, except at Greenleaf’s Point, and 
one or two other places, where there ts 
fomething lke a continuation of build- 
ings, the whole isa kind of patch-work. 
At one place, a finifhed houfe ‘prefents it- 
felf totally furrounded by wood ; at ano- 
ther, a half-finiflied one ; at a third, the 
foundations of houfes only are to be feen ; 3 
an 
