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15,000 _r_ Nos. 5, 12, 13, and 14, the last three water lots on the Eastern Branch, in Square 667, containing together 34,438 square feet, at 12 cents, 4,132 _s_ ALEXANDRIA. Corner of Pitt and Prince streets, half an acre, laid out into building lots, three or four of which are let on ground rent, at three dollars per foot, 4,000 _t_ WINCHESTER. A lot in the town, of half an acre, and another on the common, of about six acres, supposed, 400 _u_ BATH, OR WARM SPRINGS. Two well-situated and handsome buildings, to the amount of L150, 800 _v_ STOCK. Dollars. United States 6 per cent. 3,746 Ditto, deferred, 1,873 Ditto, 3 per cent. 2,946 ------ 2,500 ------ 6,246 _w_ Potomac Company, 24 shares, cost each L100 sterling, 10,666 _x_ James River Company, 5 shares, each cost 100 dollars, 500 _y_ Bank of Columbia, 170 shares, 40 dollars each, 6,800} _z_ Bank of Alexandria, 1,000} _z_ Besides 20 shares in the free school,--5. STOCK LIVING. One covering horse, 5 carriage horses, 4 riding horses, 6 brood mares, 20 working horses and mares, 2 covering jacks and 3 young ones, 10 she-asses, 42 working mules, 15 younger ones, 329 head of horned cattle, 640 head of sheep, and a large stock of hogs, the precise number unknown. [Symbol: Hand with pointing finger.] My manager has estimated this live stock at L7000; but I shall set it down, in order to make a round sum, at 15,653 -------- Aggregate amount, $530,000 * * * * * NOTES. (_a_) This tract, for the size of it, is valuable, more for its situation than the quality of its soil; though that is good for farming, with a considerable proportion of ground that might very easily be improved into meadow. It lies on the great road from the city of Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown, to Leesburgh and Winchester, at Difficult Bridge, nineteen miles from Alexandria, less from the city of George
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