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CHAPTER VII. 



Departure from Geneseo Caledonia Mr Newbold's 

 farm and stock Thunder storm Mr Macnaughton's 

 farm Instance of rapid rise in price of land Scotch 

 families at Caledonia Arrived with small capital- 

 Now independent. 



May 1841. 



ON the 24th I terminated my visit at the 

 hospitable mansion of Mr Wordsworth, and 

 left it deeply indebted to him and his family 

 for the most polite attention and kindness, and 

 with the pleasing hope of meeting and renew- 

 ing our acquaintance at New York in the end 

 of June. 



Colonel Wordsworth drove me to breakfast 

 at the house of a friend of his near Caledonia, 

 a Mr Newbold, a young man who in con- 

 nection with a Mr Roy farms extensively. 



After breakfast, which was sumptuous and 



