12 EMIGRATION, OR 



quick : no bidding good night, or other ceremony, on going 

 to bed. 



Dec. 26, Sunday. The day as fine as the preceding, 

 thermometer 47, with a clear bright air ; the sun rises 

 twenty-five minutes after seven o clock on the shortest day, 

 and sets thirty-five minutes past four. At the Roman 

 Catholic cathedral this morning ; it is just finished, and is 

 a large elegant place, far superior to the one in Moorfields, 

 London ; there is another church here also of that persuasion, 

 and a grand Unitarian one, but the latter has but a small con 

 gregation ; there are besides, Episcopalians [church of Eng 

 land], Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, 

 and Methodists ; the latter appear to be the most numerous, 

 they having four or five large meetings, and all well at 

 tended. At one of them this evening the male part of the 

 audience on one side of the meeting, and the female on the 

 other; the preacher respectable, but rather too noisy, yet he 

 had to beg the attention of the congregation more than 

 once ; no pews, but long enclosed seats from one end to the 

 other of the gallery, and below, from the aisles to the sides, 

 and across between them; every one appeared to sit where 

 he thought proper; the floors most disgustingly dirty from 

 the effects of tobacco; more than half the males of the age 

 of fourteen chew tobacco : and boys of ten or twelve years 

 may often be seen smoking a cigar. 



Dec. 27. A thick fog this morning, wind east, and no 

 frost ; sun broke through the mist at noon, when it was 

 quite warm. I took my gun into the woods, but found no 

 game ; on my return, by the race-ground, a number of 

 people had a bull tied to a stake for the purpose of baiting; 

 I stopped to see a &quot; set-to,&quot; as I had never seen one before; 

 the bull was a fine, well-bred, gentle creature; seven or eight 

 dogs were turned loose at him at once ! They soon tore his 

 ears off, and shockingly lacerated his head, which made the 

 poor thing bellow hideously, and run about in every direc 

 tion to the length of his chain, maddened with pain ; in ten 

 minutes he had killed one dog, and lamed others, when I 

 turned away with disgust at the cruel sport ; I was after 

 wards informed, the animal s head was literally torn to 

 pieces ! One might be led to suppose, by this spectacle, 

 the Baltimoreans are a depraved set of beings, but I must 

 say to their credit, I saw not more than ten or twelve of 

 respectable looking people there, the others, about one hun- 



