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knowledgment of the facts relating to which transaction, 

 1 saw in the father's own hand-writing ; this hireling, 

 when he heard of my arrival on Long Island, called it 

 my Lemnos, which allusion will, 1 hope, prove not to 

 have been wholly inapt ; for, though my life is pre- 

 cisely the reverse of that of the unhappy Philoctetes, 

 and though 1 do not hold the arrows of Hercules, I 

 do possess arrows; I make them felt too at a great 

 distance, and, I am not certain, that my arrows are 

 not destined to be the only means of destroying the 

 Trojan Boroughmongers. 



264. Having introduced a Judge here by name, it 

 may not be amiss to say, for the information of my 

 English readers, what sort of persons these Long- 

 Island Judges are. They are, some of them, Resident 

 Judges, and others Circuit Judges. They are all 

 gentlemen of knoA\Ti independent fortune, and of known 

 excellent characters and understanding. They receive 

 a mere acknowledgment for their services ; and they 

 are, in all respects, liberal gentlemen. Those with 

 whom I have the honour to be acquainted have fine 

 and most beautiful estates ; and I am very sure, that 

 what each actually expends in acts of hospitality and 

 benevolence surpasses what such a man as Burroughs^ 

 or Richards, or Bailey, or Gihhs, or, indeed, any of 

 the set, expends upon every thing, except taxes. 

 Mr. Judge Lawrence, who came to invite me to his 

 house as soon as he heard of my landing on the Island, 

 keeps a house such as I never either saw or heard of" 

 before. My son James went with a message to him a little 

 while ago, and, as he shot his way along, he was in his 

 shooting dress. He found a whole house full of com- 

 pany, amongst whom were the celebrated Dr. MntiHBLi. 

 and Mr. Clintox, the GoA'ernor of this stale ; but, they 

 made him stay and dine. Here was he, a boy, with 

 his rough, shooting dress on, dining with Judges, 

 Sheriffs, and Generals, and with the Chief Magistrjite 

 of a Commonwealth more extensive, more populous, 

 and forty times as rich as Scotland ; a Chief Magistrate 

 of very great talents, but in whom empty pride forms 

 no ingredient. Big wigs and long robes and supercilious 

 airs, are necessary only when the object is to deceive 

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