Found the little patch of wheat at the bottom of the crescent very bad.

Proceeded and examined the large field on the ascent to the westward: here are about twenty-five acres of wheat, which from its appearance we guessed would produce perhaps seven bushels an acre.

The next patch to this is in maize, which looks not unpromising; some of the stems are stout, and beginning to throw out large broad leaves, the surest sign of vigour.

The view from the top of the wheat field takes in, except a narrow slip, the whole of the cleared land at Rose Hill.

From not having before seen an opening of such extent for the last three years, this struck us as grand and capacious.