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stock on the farm. On the whole the place 

 was desirable enough, having a small clear river 

 within a quarter of a mile of the house, well 

 supplied with trout, and two ponds stocked 

 with fish, and there being on the estate, as I 

 was informed, plenty of quail, woodcock, snipe, 

 and other game. The distance from Newark 

 is six miles, and Newark is distant by the rail 

 way twenty-four miles from Jersey city on the 

 riverside opposite to New York, and the neigh 

 bourhood of extensive lead mines, Mr Grieve 

 told me, affords him a ready market for farm 

 produce. But 13,000 dollars, the price de 

 manded, I considered above the value of the 

 property, which only three years ago was pur 

 chased for 10,000. 



Having passed ten days at New York much 

 to my satisfaction, and chiefly with my rela 

 tives, Messrs George and Anthony Barclay, 

 who had proved my sheet anchor, and with 

 out whose kind interposition I should have 

 been indeed a stranger in the land, I returned 

 by steamer to Stonnington, and from thence 

 by railway to Boston, where I arrived on the 



