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only think of dirt, two feet deep, in a kitchen ! All is 

 false. — The house was built by Judge Ludlow. It is 

 large, and very sound and commodious. The avenues 

 of trees before it the most beautiful that I ever saw. 

 The orchard, the fine shade and fine grass all about the 

 house; the abundant garden, the beautiful turnip field; 

 the whole a subject worthy of admiration ; and not a' 

 single drawback. A hearty, unostentatious welcome 

 from me and my sons. A breakfast such, probably, as 

 t!ie fellow will never eat again. — I leave the public 

 to guess, whether it be likely, that I should give a chap 

 like this my opinions, about govcrnmetit or people ! Just 

 as if I did not know the people! Just as if they M'ere 

 new to me ! The man was not in the house /lalf aa 

 hour in the morning. Judge, then, what he could know. 

 of my manners and character. He was a long time 

 afterwards at New York. Would he not have been 

 here a' second time, if I had been familiar enough to 

 relate anecdotes to him I Such blades are not back- 

 ward in renewing their visits whenever they get but a 

 little encouragement. — He, in another part of the ex- 

 tracts that I have seen, complains of the reserve of the 

 American ladies. No ^^ social intercourse," be says, 

 between the sexes. That is to say, he could find none ! 

 I'll engage he could not; among.st the whites, a.t least. 

 It is hardly possible for me to talk about the public 

 affairs of England and not to talk of some of my own 

 acts ; but is it not monstrous to suppose, that I should 

 praise myself, and show that I believed myself destined 

 to be the Atlas of the British nation, in my conversa- 

 tion of a few minutes with an ulter stranger, and that, 

 too, a blade whom I took for a decent tailor, my son 

 William fur a shopkeeper's clerk, aild Mrs. Churcher, 

 with less charity, for a slippery young man, or, at best, 

 for an Exciseman ! — As 1 said before, such a man can 

 knuw nothing o( the people of America. He has no 

 channel through which to r/ct at them. And, indeed, 

 wlnj should he ! Can he go into the families of people at 

 home ! Not he, indeed, beyond his own low circle. Why 

 should he do it here, then ? Did he think he was com- 

 ing here to live at free quarter ? The black woman's 

 hut, indeed, he might force himself into with impunity ; 



