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coach, generally four or six in each, sometimes five, the driver 

 riding the near hind horse, with reins in one hand and 

 whip in the other, and mostly go a trot. Smaller and very 

 light waggons, drawn by one horse, called carry-alls, or 

 carioles, are used to bring in milk, butter, eggs, fowls, &c. 

 Vendues [auctions] of books, and almost every descrip 

 tion of merchandize, are held every few days, and others at 

 night. Sometimes things are sold very low, I saw some 

 British goods nearly as cheap as in London; American books 

 much lower, but they are not quite so well printed, and paper 

 generally inferior. 



Sunday, Jan. 16. Dull foggy day; frost out of the 

 ground again. Witnessed a military funeral procession, 

 (General Harper, who died suddenly on Friday last) ; an 

 early burial, we should think, yet here, I am told, it is the 

 custom to inter a corpse the next, and often the same day 

 of its decease. A grand parade of near 2000 soldiers, vo 

 lunteers, there are no regulars in the city ; there were three 

 bands of music with muffled drums ; each company having a 

 peculiar dress made their appearance quite novel ; two com 

 panies with different coloured plaid dresses ; they all had 

 frock jackets, I believe. The procession began with some 

 officers, then some companies, and music playing various 

 solemn airs ; three or four more companies and music ; 

 then two brass field pieces, and company of artillery-men ; 

 more music, and companies ; then the hearse, (a small one, 

 open on the side, as they all appear to be here) ; the Ge 

 neral s horse, with sword, boots, &c. ; mourning coaches ; 

 rifllemen in companies, and closed with a great number of 

 hackney coaches, and thousands of pedestrians. Some of 

 the above companies are composed of respectable tradesmen, 

 who have expensive dresses, with ostrich feathers on their 

 caps, which gives them much the appearance of the ancient 

 Spanish dress. General Harper was a Federalist, and like 

 the whole of that party was looked upon with a kind of 

 suspicion, as they are thought to have too great an attach 

 ment to the English constitution. 



Jan. 23, Sunday. At a Methodist meeting to-day; a 

 woman cried out &quot; mercy / ^ajad^spme others shouted 

 &quot; glory,&quot; and clappe&amp;lt;f hafltls, mostly wonten-, anc^ generally 

 by the same persons ; a common thing here I am^WHn 

 which appears evident, as it excited little or no surprise, 

 even amongst the most thoughtless; the preacher encou- 



