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8-12 shillings Pensyl. Current. Mr. Bauer also makes 

 mill-stones, which are split in Salisbury Township, 

 Bucks county, of a rather rough grain, extremely hard. 

 A stone 10 in. in diameter and 14 in. thick costs 20 

 Pd. Pensyl. Current. He showed me a beautiful brown- 

 ish-yellow marble, diversly flecked, which came from 

 the region about Easton on the Delaware. 



Music was before this last war still quite in its in- 

 fancy. Besides the organists in the towns and the 

 schoolmasters in the country there were no professional 

 musicians. A darky with a broken and squeezy fiddle 

 made the finest dance-music for the most numerous 

 assembly. Piano-fortes and such instruments were in 

 the houses of the rich only so much fashionable furni- 

 ture. But during the war and after it straggling mu- 

 sicians from the various armies spread abroad a taste 

 for music, and now in the largest towns concerts are 

 given, and conventional balls. In the item of dancing- 

 masters France has supplied the necessary. 



During the first days of my stay at Philadelphia, I 

 visited among others Mr. Bartram, the son of the 

 worthy and meritorious botanist (so often mentioned 

 by Kalm) who died six years ago at a great age. Bar- 

 tram the elder was merely a gardener, but by his own 

 talents and industry, almost without instruction became 

 the first botanist in America, honored with their corre- 

 spondence by Linnaeus, Collinson, and other savans. 

 He was to be sure more collector than student, but by 

 his enthusiasm and love for plants many new ones were 

 discovered. He made many long journeys on foot 

 through the mountain country, through several of the 

 provinces, and (with Kalm and Conrad Weisser*) 



* A German universally known and loved among the Indians, 



