In some parts you will find townships quite level, and in others hilly ; but there is no waste land from liills -- which are gentle ascents in most places, on a rich, productive soil. It appears to be a white clay, bordering upon a mai-l mingled with a black loam. In some places you find rotten slate, or rather clay stones. Over all this country sea-shells are found of almost all kinds. The country is well watered ; and the water appears to be good -- as good as can be from limestones.

People frequently raise their provisions the summer of their settling; if tliey go on in season, they chop down the trees, and get them off ls soon as possible; and they sow spring wheat and plant corn. The wheat is sown and dragged; and if there is no blast, they reap from 25 to 35 bushels the acre. Corn is only planted upon tlie ground without plowing, and is seldom hoed racre than onoe -- and then no more is done than to cut np the fii-e weed: and corn planted and tended in this manner^ I hav«;

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measured, which was 11 1 in height. It, however, does not appear to be so stocky as corn in Deerfield meadows. They tell me it produces from 40 to 70 bushels the acre. It would not answer here, however, to tend corn in this manner after ye first year of its being cleared -- it would become weedy. Crops of all kinds appear to flourish, though the ground is not half tilled.