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were elegant and refined. His conversation easy and interesting. 

 His house was tlie seat of open and liberal hospitality — his board 

 the constant scene of intelleetnal enjoyment. He was fond of 

 entertaining strangers. His charity may be termed munificent. 

 He considered it a duty and a privilege to give : it was a pleasure 

 to him, whether in a subscription to some public object, or in 

 strictly private alms — when the left hand knoweth not what the 

 right doeth — he was free — free to a fault. Perhaps it was best 

 to err on the right side. 



Unfortunate in the loss of his wife and children, the greater 

 portion of his latter years were passed in childless widowhood. 

 He was not what is called a demonstrative man, but it was in his 

 case as it is in many others, the grief that speaks not outwardly, 

 is that which is felt and dwelt upon most deeply and keenly. He 

 was no doubt sustained amid all his trials by a strong religious 

 faith, for no man had a more unwavering one in the truth and 

 power of Christianit}^ He was a communicant of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Chiirch, and one of the Wardens of St. Peter's Church 

 in this city, which office he still held when he died. 



He was in the eightj'-second 3'ear of his age when he passed 

 away, February 20, 1868. Semper honos, nomenque tuuni lau- 

 desque manebunt. 



Prof. T. C. Porter exhibited nine drawings of figures, rudely but 

 plainly cut by the Aborigines, in the face of the rocks which form 

 the shore and small islands of the Susquehanna River, near the 

 Maryland State Line. The drawings Avere made b}^ Mr. S. G. 

 Boyd of York, York county, I'enna. They are fac similes in 

 size and character, having been obtained by applying the paper 

 sheets to the sculptured surfaces. Some of the figures pass 

 down to or into the water at the ordinary level of the river. 

 Four of the groups bear a remarkable resemblance to the con- 

 centric circles with radial grooves figured by Dr. J. Y. Simpson 

 of Edinburg, in his recent work upon the rock sculpture of the 

 Druid men-Mrs of the British islands. Plate XIII. of this 

 volume is a photolithographic redaction to a scale of about one- 

 eighth of nature, by Osborne's process. 



The Society was then adjourned. 



