*park-paling, every other pale high, the tall pales to have 5 nails. the low one 4. nails is worth but 30/ the 100. yds., out and out. calculated by Skip Harris.
*a coach & six will turn in 80. feet.
Garden Book, page 9
by Thomas Jefferson
by Thomas Jefferson
[1772]
Octob. 8.
gathered 2. plumb-peaches at Monticello.
Nov. 12.
*William Gillum sais it will take a bushel of Lime-stone (which he sais is equal to 2. bushels of slacked lime) to a perch of stonework 18. I. thick. -- but Anderson sais 3. bushels of Lime.
*in making the Round-about walk, 3 hands would make 80. yds. in a day in the old feild, but in the woods where they had stumps to clear, not more than 40. & sometimes 25. yds.