one hundred seventy slaves young and old, and out of that number only twenty-seven[10] in a condition to work, as the steward represented to me.

I viewed the whole of the cultivated estate--about three thousand acres; and afterward dined with Mrs.Washington and the family.

Here I met a Doctor Thornton, who is a very pleasant agreeable man, and his lady; with a Mr.Peters and his lady, who was a grand-daughter of Mrs.
Washington.

Doctor Thornton living at the city of Washington, he gave me an invitation to visit him there: he was one of the commissioners of the city.
[10] Most certainly a mistake.
I slept at Mount Vernon, and experienced a very kind and comfortable reception; but did not like the land at all.

I saw no green grass there, except in the garden: and this was some English grass, appearing to me to be a sort of couch-grass; it was in drills.