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for My Beloved Lucy, My Dear Boys — I felt that I 

 would be Awkward at table and a good opportunity 

 having offered to go to M"^ Perrie place, We Walked 

 slowly on, guided by some of their servants dispatch^ 

 with the News of our Coming and some Light 

 Baggage— 



the Aspect of the Country entirely New to us dis- 

 tracted My Mind from those objects that are the 

 occupation of My Life — the Rich Magnolia covered 

 with its Odoriferous Blossoms, the Holy, the Beech, 

 the Tall Yellow Poplar, the Hilly ground, even the 

 Red Clay I Looked at with amazement [and] such 

 entire change in so Short a time appears often super- 

 natural, and surrounded once More by thousands of 

 Warblers & Thrushes, I enjoy^ Nature 



My Eyes soon Met hovering over us the Long 

 Wished for, Mississipi Kite and Swallow Tailed 

 Hawk, but our Guns Were pack*^ and We could only 

 then anticipate the pleasure of procuring them 

 shortly — the 5 Miles We Walked appear'^ Short We 

 Arrived and Met M'^ Perrie at his House Anxious to 

 Know him I Inspected his features by Lavaters direc- 

 tions, — We Were received Kindly — ■ 



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during the diferent excursions We have made 

 through the Woods here, and from Report of Such 



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