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Lutheran and a Reformed church here, but no Court- 

 house as yet. I made the acquaintance of the Lutheran 

 minister, Dr. Stoy, who, after he had been many years 

 settled as pastor of the congregation, left them for a 

 few years to go to Leyden and study the art of medi- 

 cine. At his house I saw several large and beautiful 

 pearls which came from a near-by stream, in which 

 region also traces of excellent pit-coals were found. 

 Hornblende and several other trifling minerals were 

 shown me with a mysterious confidence by a German 

 goldsmith who is hunting for silver. Large specimens 

 of quartz, brown on the outside and white within, 

 showing blunted crystals at the surface are often 

 ploughed up hereabouts. A dense reddish sand-stone 

 (freestone) comes to the surface a few miles from here 

 towards the South Mountain, and is fetched hither for 

 chimneys &c ; but for house-walls they use the common 

 grey limestone. A lump of gold, according to Dr. 

 Stoy (and he named witnesses who had heard it from 

 other witnesses) was out of gratitude given last spring 

 by an Indian to a Pensylvania farmer who had fur- 

 nished him supplies through the winter ; he got it from 

 the neighboring mountains, and the silly farmer was 

 too skittish to follow the Indian, who w r as willing to 

 show him where his gold-pocket was. There are al- 

 ways Germans who bother themselves with such fairy 

 tales. If the Indians knew where there was gold they 

 would oftener make it manifest, for they know very 

 well the value of the yellow metal. Dr. Stoy main- 

 tained that the descendants of the Germans originally 

 settled here are less strong and healthy than their 

 fathers and do not live to be so old, because their 

 better circumstances make them less industrious and 



