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Jefferson Writes
We have had the most devastating rain which has ever fallen within my knowledge Three inches of water fell in the space of about an hour. Every hollow of every hill presented a torrent which swept everything before it I have never seen the fields so much injured Mr Ran dolph’s farm is the only one which has not suffered; his horizontal furrows arrested the water at every step till it was absorbed, or at least had deposited the soil it had taken up Everybody in this neighborhood is adopting his method of ploughing, except tenants who have no inter est in the preservation of the soil.
(1810)
We could, in the United States, make as great a vari ety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good. Yet I have ever ob j served to my countrymen, who think its introduction im I portant, that a laborer cultivating wheat, rice, tobacco, or I cotton here, will be able with the proceeds, to purchase I double the quantity of the wine he could make
(1808)
72.4%