They have what they call the honeysuckle, a flowering-shrub, with many others of the shrub kind, for which I do not know Indeed the woods are so much any name. variegated by a diversity of colours, from the different kinds of trees, as to produce a pleasing effect; particularly the oaks, and especially in autumn. SECTION XXII. Clothing-House-rent-Fire-wood— Labour : the Expence of each. A BEAVER hat costs eight dollars, or three pounds currency; an inferior hat five dollars, or one pound seventeen shillings and six pence. A pair of boots eight dollars. The boots I bought lasted only six weeks before they wanted soaling and calashing, which cost me four dollars more. cost fifteen shillings per pair; inferior ones, very bad indeed, seven shillings and six pence. A pair of common trowsers and jacket cost from five to six dollars. Shoes My tailor's bill, which I intended to have inserted, is mislaid; but the following were the prices, as near as I can recollect, of the several articles specified:-A topcoat for a boy twelve years old, of the cloth called bear-skin, eight dollars; ditto for a youth eighteen years old, ten dollars (three pounds fifteen shillings); a coat of ladies" cloth, such as sells in England at about fifteen shillings a yard, seven pounds nineteen shillings and five pence; a milking-jacket, four dollars and a half, or one pound thirteen shillings and nine pence. A front store, or shop, of sixteen feet in front, lets for a thousand dollars per annum ; a larger one at fifteen hundred. There is a tavern, called the third tavern in Baltimore-the house only, lets at twelve hundred pounds a year: and every other house in proportion. The land within two miles of Baltimore (the place to which these observations attach) sells, for ten or fifteen acres together, at forty-five and fifty pounds per acre. Wood is from five to nine dollars per cord; the cord is twelve feet long, four feet high, and three feet over. Portering in towns is from one dollar to one dollar and a half per day; at harvestwork, one dollar per day and a pint of whiskey; at all other times of the year, from five to six shillings per day; if dieted, from three shillings to three shillings and six pence per day: women servants, by the month, from eight to twelve dollars. SECTION XXIII. A correct Account of every Crop, with Rotations; including the Expence and Profit arising therefrom. Remarks on rural Life, Cows, &c. Rotation of four Years with Crops of Indian Corn and Wheat, Dr. and Cr. To ploughing one acre, what is termed flushing, To listing and preparing the hills for planting and sowing the To molding the corn, where the first missed, .1 2 6 To ploughing from the corn, . 0 18 where any may be wanted, o 15 0 |