¥18 Obse 
above fpecified, T imagine an Englihman 
will not deem the tax very oppreifive. 
Bemg, myielf unwell, our party ftaid 
the whole of the 21ft of May at Deer- 
feld, where our accommodations were 
bad; but we made out with fried chick- 
ens and ezg-nog ae with whikey} a 
aft many eggs, m saple fugar, and milk), 
the fried ham not being eatable. ‘The 
Beevor is navigable for finall craft up to 
Deerfield, and its banks were. covered 
with beautiful flowers, and will, I think, 
ene day with the feats of men of tafte. 
Alo og the Beevor, and the Ohio, and 
Mithffippi, the timber of this county has 
already been fent to New Orleans, where 
itis m high repute ‘The whole of the 
eounty is, I think, better adapted for 
grais than grain : however, the oak lands 
are confidered well adapted for corn; 
whilft the grazier moft anxiouily feeks for 
the beach, maple, and hickory, 
Although two dollars may be confider- 
ed as the niarket price for wild lands in 
Trumbull, yet particular circumftances 
will advance the price, efpecially neigh- 
beuring pepulation and improvement. 
We looked at a traét of fine land on the 
Beevor, covered with moft luxuriant grafs 
and lofty timber, beautifully receding 
from the river, and coniifing of 5,700 
2eres, which was for falc, and { for w ich 
was required three dollars per acre; but 
more, if fold in farms, would be de- 
manded. By a farm is always meant 
160 acres. 
I think no part of the eattern divifion 
af the ceunty 1s fo beautiful as Deer- 
Geld ; it is a poft-town, and has an of 
hee; 1t had alfo 26 families, one public 
ichool, a faw and grift mill; and is a 
very thriving fettlement. 
(mn the 22d we left Deerfield, paffed 
through the unfettied townships of Pal- 
myra, Boardinan, and two others not 
yet named, tor Warren, the county-town 
ef Trumbull. In this journey of 22 
mules, we rode along many fine groves of 
wild cherries and crabs, though fome- 
what inconvenienced by the etfects of the 
waters of Deerfield, which holding in 
folution confiderable quantities of neu~ 
tral falts, are both very unpleatant and 
purgative to ftrangers. In that townfhip 
we alfo faw lime-ftone, free-itone, white 
flint, coal, allum, and fome maies of 
faltpetre. Although the. greater part of 
the inhabitants im Trumbull are propri- 
etors of the foil on which they live, yet 
there are fome tenants; the mode of 
renting is as follows: tenant leafes the 
rvations made during 4 Tour in the United Siates. [N 
Aarch 15 
land for ten years, during which period 
ke pays no rent, but engages to lay, 
down, and leave at the expiration of his. 
leafe, 10 acres of orchard, 10 of mea- 
dow (meaning either land near or difiant 
from water in-prafs), and 40 in finall 
grain or maize. The tenant moreover. 
couvenants to leave a houfe on: the Jan 
worth at leaft 100 dollars. It is caleu- 
lated, that one year’s crop will pay for 
clearing and fencing it. Gurdling, which 
is the moft common miode of setting rid 
of the trees, cofts one dollar the ‘day, 
and the quantity girdled ought to be half 
an acre; or laborers can be had for 10 
Collars a week, who will completely clear 
one acre of ground. Where the iand is 
girdled, a fair crop of maize averages 
trom 40 to 60 buthels an acre; gene- 
rally fpeaking, there is no underwood in 
thete foretis. 
As tne Indians had been fummoned ta 
meet at Cleveland on the if of June, 
we propoied {pending a. part of the in-- 
termediate time with our friends at War- 
ren, and in vifiting thofe parts of the 
county which border on the lake. War- 
ren is the prefent trelidence of Judge 
P—, who has cleared a confiderable 
piece of land, and laid out a garden 
with much tafte. With the amiable fa- 
mily of this refpectable man we ftaid. 
fame days, and by lium were informed, 
that the Britith agents* were wing all 
their influence to prevent a meeting of 
the Indians at Cleveland, and that there ‘ 
was great reafon to ae they would 
frufirate the defign. 1 received other in- 
formation, wh ich was individually mor- 
tifying: expecting to meet numerous bo- 
dies of Indians, I had procured, and 
brought with me, fome vaecine matter, 
with the hope of inducing them to flee 
mit to inoculation ; but I was now told, 
that, if they came, the very mention of 
fuch a defign would immediately difioive 
the aflembly ; that their dread of the 
fmall-pox was extreme, and that it would 
not bein my power, or that of any other 
man, to induce the =n to iukmit to vacci-~ _ 
nation. I therefore.determimed to di- 
vide the matter as well as I could: part 
I gave to a medical man im Warren; 
pert to fome of the moft refpectable 1mi- 
habitants “ the county; and» with the 
reit I inoculated feyeral individuals, iy 
* By Britifh traders are here meant Cana~ 
dian traders, who had long fmuggled@ through 
the Indian territories into thole of the United 
ratés. . 
yarious 
