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sance which I regret to say a stranger rarely 

 meets with on a first introduction to my fair 

 countrywomen, who in their reception of stran 

 gers, are from education and habit apt to as 

 sume a false and repulsive dignity, while an 

 American lady on a similar occasion displays, 

 with high polish, a frankness and cordiality 

 extremely grateful to one s feelings and lead 

 ing him at once to fancy himself among old 

 friends. Such on my introduction to Miss 

 Wordsworth, were the qualities I found her in 

 an eminent degree to possess, and with them 

 uniting great beauty and accomplishment. 



Mr Wordsworth s property comprises about 

 forty miles of country, the richness and pic 

 turesque appearance of which it is impossible 

 in adequate terms to describe. Of this pro 

 perty Colonel Wordsworth occupies 1600 

 acres, 1000 of which, in the Gene see flats, are 

 alluvial meadow land equal to any in the vales 

 of Aylesbury and Buckingham. This portion 

 of land he keeps in old pasture, laid out in 

 divisions of from 60 to* 100 acres each. The 



