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dred, consisted of the refuse of the place, and a number of 

 them job butchers. Bull-baiting is not allowed in the liber 

 ties of the city, and means are about to be taken to put a 

 stop to it altogether. 



I have been looking out for some little business, or a situ 

 ation as superintendent, or overseer of a farm, but have not 

 yet succeeded ; I find I am not prepared for the latter, be 

 cause / do not understand the management of Blacks. 

 I have been introduced to some Englishmen, but they, gene 

 rally, have treated me with far more reserve and coolness 

 than the Americans. One from the Isle of Wight, a Mr. S., 

 says he was an extensive farmer and butcher there : he 

 has been here about two years, and is doing pretty well 

 as a butcher, having nothing much when he came, and has 

 some ungracious feelings towards his native country. Another 

 from Hampshire has been here fifty-six years, and is seventy- 

 eight years of age. He shouldered his musket in the late 

 war, he tells me, to defend his home. 



Sunday, Jan. 2, 1825. Some snow in the night, with 

 rain, and afterwards frost, which makes the streets all ice ; 

 some few sleighs about to day, with bells, which I am told 

 they are compelled to have by law, that they may not 

 run foul of each other in the night. Heard a rather cele 

 brated orator (a Methodist preacher from the back woods,) 

 hold forth in a meeting belonging to another denomination, 

 in aid of a subscription for building an asylum for orphan 

 females; a fluent speaker, but manner too theatrical, and 

 language bombastic. 



Jan. 10. Frosty of late, when there were plenty of 

 people to be seen skaiting. Been to ask the price of land 

 to rent ; one lot of fifty acres, only half cleared, four miles 

 from town, 18s. per acre per annum: another of rich bot 

 tom land, or meadow, several miles off, near the river, I was 

 asked 12 dollars, or 2/. 14s. per acre, rent. Great num 

 bers of waggons from distant parts of the country every day, 

 with barrels of flour for the merchants, and fat hogs, dead, 

 for the market ; some come four hundred miles, the drivers 

 sleeping in the waggons at night, and carry with them the 

 horses feed; the waggons me excellent, strong, and light; 

 narrow wheels, narrow in the body, with tilts, seven or eight 

 ]&i bent over, and removeable at pleasure, these covered 

 by a light-coloured fine canvas, drawn together at each 

 end like a purse : the horses go double, with a pole, like a 



