IS4> NEW YORK. 



stock on the farm. On the whole the place 

 was desirable enough, having a small clear river 

 within a quarter of a mile of the house, well 

 supplied with trout, and two ponds stocked 

 with fish, and there being on the estate, as I 

 was informed, plenty of quail, woodcock, snipe, 

 and other game. The distance from Newark 

 is six miles, and Newark is distant by the rail- 

 way twenty-four miles from Jersey city on the 

 riverside opposite to New York, and the neigh- 

 bourhood of extensive lead mines, Mr Grieve 

 told me, affords him a ready market for farm 

 produce. But 13,000 dollars, the price de- 

 manded, I considered above the value of the 

 property, which only three years ago was pur- 

 chased for 10,000. 



Having passed ten days at New York much 

 to my satisfaction, and chiefly with my rela- 

 tives, Messrs George and Anthony Barclay, 

 who had proved my sheet anchor, and with- 

 out whose kind interposition I should have 

 been indeed a stranger in the land, I returned 

 by steamer to Stonnington, and from thence 

 by railway to Boston, where I arrived on the 



