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the belly to the Under part of the Mouth where they 

 finished Numbered 170 and 22 from the vent to the 

 tail — My Drawing I Hope Will give you a good Idea 

 of a Rattle Snake although the Heat of the weather 

 Would not permit me to Spend More than 16 hours 

 at it — My amiable Pupil Miss Eliza Perrie also drew 

 the same Snake; it is With Much pleasure that I now 

 Mention her Name expecting to remember often her 

 sweet disposition and the Happy Days spent near her — 



Oct^ loti^ sent lOoS to M^« A — 



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This Morning about 6 o'clock We Left M'" Perrie's 

 Plantation for New Orleans, Which Place we Reach*^ 

 on Monday the 21^* at 2 o'clock but before I alight in 

 that City, I Must Poise Myself and give you a short 

 a/c of the Most Remarkable Incident that have taken 

 Place With us during our Stay at Oakley the Name 

 of James P. Plantation — 



Three Months out of the 4 we lived there Were 

 Spent in peaceable tranquility; giving regular Daily 

 Lessons to Miss P. of Drawing, Music, Dancing, Arith- 

 metick, and Some trifling acquirements such as Work- 

 ing Hair &*= Hunting and Drawing My Cherished Birds 

 of America; Seldom troublesome of Disposition, and 

 not Caring for or Scarcely ever partaking or Mixing 

 with the constant Transient Visitors at the House, We 

 Were Called good Men and Now & then received a 



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