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not entirely, by Dutch. It is a fact rather singular, that the 

 Dutch (as farmers, which most of them are) thrive best of 

 all settlers; the reason is obvious; they are a close-living, 

 hard-working, frugal people, and, what most ensures success, 

 they always settle in companies, and generally on the richest 

 land. Corn, grain, &c. looking pretty well, and the farms 

 in tolerable good order. Green peas just coming in ; they, 

 and other crops, are three weeks later than in Maryland. 

 Heard the first whip-poor-will and the first bull frog, the 

 latter I at first took to be the bellowing of a bull at a 

 distance. 



June 21. Very warm to-day, the people say hot: the 

 high hills keep off the cold breezes from these low confined 

 grounds. Walked thirty-two miles to-day in company with 

 the merchant, a curious old bachelor of forty-five, and dis 

 ciple of Malthus. The canal, which runs all up the flats 

 near the river, has a good deal of traffic on it. The boat 

 men, in general, civil, and even respectable, a contrast to 

 some of that class in England ; but a good number of them 

 are farmers, who carry their own produce to market, or 

 leave their farms at the least busy time and go as captains 

 and mates to the trading boats. Some elegantly fitted up 

 packet boats, drawn by three horses on a trot, pass us to 

 day, full of fine ladies and gentlemen. There is the same 

 easy indifference, or nonchalance, in the American females 

 as I before remarked in the males. Some of them are 

 fine figures, with handsome features, and pretty good 

 colour, yet but little of the play of the soul. You may ad 

 mire their handsome forms, and enjoy their company unem 

 barrassed and with corresponding indifference, without being 

 in any great danger of having a more tender passion excited. 

 Should much disagreement arise between husband and 

 wife, they generally separate, and a newspaper is seldom 

 seen without advertisements respecting them, warning not 

 to trust, &c. 



June 11. Passed through what are called the German 

 flats ; a pretty well settled country and good land, where the 

 boat overtook us in which we had left our luggage, into 

 which we got, where there were twelve or fourteen passen 

 gers already, several of them women, who occupy all the 

 beds and fore cabin, so we are forced to be content with the 

 body of the boat, and spread the blankets (which are plen 

 tiful) on the packages of merchandize to sleep, which is 



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