50 MR WORDSWORTH. 



I afterwards dined at the house of Mr 

 James Wordsworth. His lady is from Phila- 

 delphia and of a family originally of the So- 

 ciety of Friends. She has the gentle and 

 amiable manner peculiar to the female part of 

 that excellent people, and also no small share 

 of what their simple costume proves, 

 Needs not the foreign aid of ornament. 



Mr James Wordsworth farms extensively, but 

 as his farm lies at a considerable distance, I 

 was obliged to forego the gratification of vi- 

 siting it. 



After dinner, however, I once more accom- 

 panied his brother in a ride over his farm, and 

 was in consequence the more confirmed in 

 my first opinion, that with an improved breed 

 of stock and a better system of husbandry, he 

 might double or triple the value of it. 



In the evening I learnt, in the course of 

 conversation with the elder Mr Wordsworth, 

 that in the neighbourhood of Caledonia, a town 

 about eleven miles off, the settlers are entire- 

 ly Scotch, and as I found that locality was not 

 much out of my route, I determined to visit it. 



