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for five and twenty years of his life, with great honour to himfcif, 

 and to which he generoufly facrifictd a part of his fortune. lie 

 has even reiolvcd to decline attending- the Winter mectipfTS of the 

 Legiflatuie of the State of Mafl'achnfltts. Thus, from a lucccfsful 

 career in poHtical h'fe, he turns himfelf to augment and impiove a 

 fair cflatc ; in confequencc of which, he may prohably leave immcnfe 

 wealth to hia family. Can a man know a pad life of more agree- 

 able retrofpeft, in connexion with future profpects more fair and 

 promifing ? " 



After travelling through New Hampfhire, and pafTing two 

 days with Mr Langdon, a gentleman of great influence in 

 that ftate, the Duke again vifited Bofton, and proceeded by 

 the v/ay of Rhode Ifland and Ccnneclicut to New York. 

 The numerous towns on this coafi:, and the hufbandry of 

 the adjacent country, are judicioufiy defcribed; and, among 

 other obfervations on the ftate of Connecticut, we find the 

 following : — 



" Another law, long prior to the Revolution, obliges every 

 feventy families in Connedlicut, to maintain a common fchcol for 

 eleven montlis in the year. Reading and writing are appointed to be 

 there tauglit-. If the number of families be under feventy, they are 

 then obliged to maintain their fchool only for fix months in the year. 

 Every town forming a regular incorporation, mud keep a grammar 

 fchool, in which Englifli, Latin, and Greek, arc to be taught. 

 The different focieties are to name, each, a deputation to vifit 

 and regulate the fchools. For every thoiijand dollars of taxation to 

 the ftate, i^o dollars are to be paid for the fuppoit of the fchool.^. 

 The teachers have falaries proportioned to the taxation of the 

 diftrifts to which they belong. Towns, or coromunitics, entruded 

 •with particular funds for the fnpport of the fchools, can receive 

 no Intereft from thofe funds, while they delay to ercft the fchools 

 for which it was dcftincd ; and lofe the principal, if they fliail 

 attempt to divert it to any different purpofe. Towns or parifhes, 

 having xio Joundathn for fchools, muft either fupport their fchools 

 entirely out of the appointed la;<, or muft at Icaft contribute one 

 half of the means for the maintenance of thefe fchools ; while the 

 parents, whofe children are educated in them, pay the reft. In very 

 populous towns, the fupport of the fchools continues to Le left to 

 the inhabitants. 



" It is provided by law, that the felefl men fliall in every town 

 take cognizance of the ftate of the fchools. Upon their reports, and 

 in the proportions in which thefe declare the falaries to be rtfpec- 

 tively deferved, the towns make payment of the money which has 

 been levied for the teachers. Where there are no fchools, or but 

 very bad ones, the proportion of the tax is withheld, in order that it 



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