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stuck between their lips, and with dirty hands and 



faces. Mr. Birkbeck's complaint, on this score, is per- 

 fectly just. 



Brimsicick, New Jersey. Here I am, after a ride 

 of about 30 miles, since two o'clock, in what is called 

 a Jersey- waggon, through such mnd as I never saw 

 before. Up to the stock of the wheel ; and } et a pair 

 of very little horses have dragged us through it in the 

 space oi Jive hours. The best horses and driver, and 

 the worst roads I ever set my eyes on. This part of 

 Jersey is a sad spectacle, alter leaving the brightest of 

 all the bright parts of Penns% Ivania. My driver, who 

 is a tavern-keeper himself, would have i3een a very 

 pleasant companion, if he had not drunk so much spirits 

 on the road. This is the great misfortune of America ! 

 As we were going up a hill very slowly, I could per- 

 ceive him looking very hard at my cheeii for some time. 

 At last, he said : " I am wondering. Sir, to see you 

 " look so fresh and so young, considering what you 

 " have gone through in the world;" though I cannot 

 imagine how he had learnt who I was. " I'll tell you," 

 said I, " how I have contrived the thing. I rise early, 

 " go to bed early, eat sparingly, never drink any thing 

 " stronger than small beer, shave once a day, and wash 

 " my hands and face clean three times a day, at the very 

 " least." He said, that was too mvch to think of doing. 

 12. Warm and fair. Like an Engbshy/;si of 3Iay 

 in point of warmth. I got to ElizabeUi Town Point 

 through beds of mud. Twenty minutes too late for the 

 steam-boat. Have to wait here at the tavern till to- 

 morrow. Great mortification. Supped M'ith a Con- 

 necticut farmer, who was taking on his daughter to 

 Little York in Pennsylvania. The rest of his family he 

 took on in the fail. He has vnrjrated. His reasons 

 were these : he has five sons, the eldest 19 years of 

 age, and several daughters. Connecticut is thickly 

 settled. He has not the means to buy farms lor the 

 sons there. He, therefore, goes and gets cheap land 

 in Pemisylvania ; his sons v ill as.sist him to clear it ; 

 and, thus, they will have a lann each. To a man in 

 such circumstances, and " born witli an axe in one 

 *' hand, and a gun in the other," the western countries 



