Show ma ly ir 3 jw w ami B 6 C t 20 W james brooks GEORGE TRAVELS TRAVEL 9 by all X F A D E it EXT washington entered upon what he be y P had now begun to ardently hope fora long succession of pleasant and peaceful years year t as a mabler farmer fanner he had made one attempt Z before now it was to he be final he set his hand to the task of broadening his acres to the enlargement J lar gement and improvement of mount vernon and to increasing the productivity of his I 1 farms HE HIS S was waona one of washington Washing s docks hunt built for the handling of gaarn tobacco flour and other products which be shipped in his own sloop to points on the potomac buy nothing you can make within yourselves I 1 yes it was his motto he made plows directed his black V M Sr smiths nith wood burners shoemakers weavers to and in a season seined heined from the river close to one hundred thousand herring marketing about 1 4 fill eighty five thousand of the catch |