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enjoyments of another kind im the evening of his life. 
They did not consist in viewing territories acquired by 
fraud or force, or fields stained with human blood. 
They were of a higher nature ; they consisted in con- 
templating trophies of his conquests over barrenness, 
briars and thorns, in fields covered with the means of 
encreasing the subsistence and numbers of men and 
beasts, and in beholding the progress of improve- 
ments through the country, upon upland farms, of 
which he had set the example and in the tranquillity re- 
sulting from a well spent life. 
After an illness of some weeks, which he bore with 
great composure, he calmly resigned his breath on the 
6th December 1808. 
If in ancient times, the birth day of that man was 
deemed worthy of celebration who first pressed the 
grape, and taught man the use of its intoxicating juice ; 
surely the memory of our own countryman will be held 
in grateful remembrance by posterity, when it shall be 
known, that he greatly contributed to increase the solid 
riches not only of our state, but also the wealth and com- 
fort of the farmer, which of late are so apparent, by the 
agricultural improvements he introduced, and by shew- 
ing how the earth may be made to produce a greater 
increase by the judicious application of labour.—In the 
domestic circle, we dwell with pleasing § satisfaction 
upon the recollection of those departed friends, who have 
endeared themselves to us by good offices, virtues, 
and the kind courtesies of life ; the patriotic mind will 
derive still greater pleasure from the consideration, that 
a long and active existence had been spent in labours 
calculated to promote the interest of the community at 
