The herrings of the bountiful Potomac supply their place.

These are excellent "relish," as they call it, when salted, and, if I mistake not, are sold at a dollar and a half per thousand.

Whiskey, however, flows every where at the same fatally cheap rate of twenty cents (about one shilling) the gallon, and its hideous effects are visible on the countenance of every man you meet.
The class of people the most completely unlike any existing in England, are those who, farming their own freehold estates, and often possessing several slaves, yet live with as few of the refinements, and I think I may say, with as few of the comforts of life, as the very poorest English peasant.

When in Maryland, I went into the houses of several of these small proprietors, and remained long enough, and looked and listened sufficiently, to obtain a tolerably correct idea of their manner of living.
One of these families consisted of a young man, his wife, two children, a female slave, and two young lads, slaves also.

The farm belonged to the wife, and, I was told, consisted of about three hundred acres of indifferent land, but all cleared.