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number within, while more are sure not to come in from with 

 out ; and, I really am afraid he will go a good way towards securing 

 a monopoly of many great improvements in agriculture, both as to 

 principle and method. People see the fine fields of the Har- 

 monites, but, the prospect comes damped with the idea of bondage 

 and celibacy. It is a curious society : was ever one heard of 

 before that did not wish to increase ! This smells strong of 

 policy ; some distinct view in the leaders, no doubt. Who 

 would be surprized if we were to see a still more curious society 

 by and bye ? A Society Sole ! very far from improbable, if the 

 sons of Rapp (for he has children, nevertheless, as well as Parson 

 Malthus) and the Elders were to die, it not being likely that they 

 will renounce or forfeit their right to the common stock. We 

 should then have societies as well as corporations vested in one 

 person ! That would be quite a novel kind of benefice ! but, not 

 the less fat. I question whether the associated person of Mr. 

 Rapp would not be in possession of as fine a domain and as many 

 good things as the incorporated person of an Archbishop : nay, 

 he would rival the Pope ! But, to my journal. 



923. Arrive at Princeton in the evening ; a good part of our road 

 lay over the fine lands of the Harmonites. I understand, by the 

 bye, that the title deeds to these lands are taken in the name of 

 Rapp and of his associates. Poor associates : if they do but rebel ! 

 Find the same store-keepers and tavern keepers in the same 

 attitudes that we left them in the other day. Their legs only a 

 little higher than their heads, and segars in their mouths ; a fine 

 position for business ! It puts my friend in mind of the Roman 

 posture in dining. 



924. July yrd. At Princeton all day. This is a pretty con 

 siderable place ; very good as to buildings ; but, is too much 

 inland to be a town of any consequence until the inhabitants do 

 that at home which they employ merchants and foreign manu 

 facturers to do for them. Pay i dollar for a set of old shoes to 

 my horse, half the price of new ones. 



925. July ^th. Leave Princeton ; in the evening, reach a place 

 very appropriately called Mud-holes, after riding 46 miles over 

 lands in general very good but very little cultivated, and that 

 little very badly ; the latter part of the journey in company with 

 a Mr. Jones from Kentucky. Nature is the agriculturist here ; 

 speculation, instead of cultivation, is the order of the day amongst 

 men. We feel the ill effects of this in the difficulty of getting 

 oats for our horses. However, the evil is unavoidable, if it really 

 can be called an evil. As well might I grumble that farmers have 

 not taken possession as complain that men of capital have. Labour 

 is the thing wanted, but, to have that, money must come first. 

 This Mud-holes was a sort of fort, not 4 years ago, for guarding 

 against the Indians, who then committed great depredations, 

 killing whole families often, men, women and children. How 



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