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sance which I regret to say a stranger rarely 

 meets with on a first introduction to my fair 

 countrywomen, who in their reception of stran- 

 gers, are from education and habit apt to as- 

 sume a false and repulsive dignity, while an 

 American lady on a similar occasion displays, 

 with high polish, a frankness and cordiality 

 extremely grateful to one's feelings and lead- 

 ing him at once to fancy himself among old 

 friends. Such on my introduction to Miss 

 Wordsworth, were the qualities I found her in 

 an eminent degree to possess, and with them 

 uniting great beauty and accomplishment. 



Mr Wordsworth's property comprises about 

 forty miles of country, the richness and pic- 

 turesque appearance of which it is impossible 

 in adequate ferms to describe. Of this pro- 

 perty Colonel Wordsworth occupies 1600 

 acres, 1000 of which, in the Gene see flats, are 

 alluvial meadow land equal to any in the vales 

 of Aylesbury and Buckingham. This portion 

 of land he keeps in old pasture, laid out in 



divisions of from 60 to 100 acres each. The 



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