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management, yet not very rich. Great quantities of wild 

 mustard growing- luxuriantly along the new formed canal 

 banks, in the bottom of the Twelve Mile Creek. A number 

 of beautiful spreading shady trees on the sides of the creek, 

 of the butter-nut and hickery species. St. Catharine s is a 

 thriving and rapidly improving village, very pleasantly si 

 tuated along the pleasantly diversified romantic banks of the 

 Twelve Mile Creek, down in which, 1 00 feet below the houses, 

 is seen meandering the great unfinished canal. 



The inhabitants are chiefly Americans. A &quot; darned tar 

 nation&quot; pretty sample of them here &quot; I swear,&quot; some &quot; I 

 guess,&quot; from the &quot; States prison,&quot; and some that have broke 

 the ft limits,&quot; &quot; I calculate,&quot; &c. In short &quot; blue bellies&quot; 

 of all sorts and conditions, equal to any of the frontier towns 

 on both sides of the &quot; lines.&quot; To come at a faint idea of a 

 group of these half-dandified, {t sleek,&quot; smooth-faced, whis- 

 kerless, whiskey-drinking, third-commandment breaking, 

 speculating, money-hunting gentry, with various other quali 

 fications, too numerous and too bad to mention, take 

 nine tailors, a few barbers, half a dozen strolling players, 

 three or four quack doctors, some few waiters at taverns, 

 hackney coachmen, shoe makers, and lawyers clerks, 

 half a dozen Jews, and three or four honest men, (perhaps 

 as great a proportion as to be found in some other places) 

 the last from Yorkshire, one half of the others from that 

 county, and the remainder cockneys. Let the barbers shave 

 all the whiskers off the others and themselves ; leave the hair 

 on their heads thick but short, something like a thrum mop, 

 or similar to the fashion in King Charles s days. Let them 

 have very high-crowned hats, some few white, or buff; others 

 black, full of long nap and very narrow brim ; blue surtout, 

 black silk vest, laced up tight behind, blue or black trowsers, 

 full enough round the hips to hold fifty dollars worth of 

 smuggled goods, with boots, of course ; yes, all boots, or 

 nearly so. This for the first &quot; grade&quot; dress, the others as 

 near as their circumstances will admit. Now place them in 

 a large room in an inn, with free liberty of ingress, egress, 

 and regress, with benches to lie on, and chairs to sit on to 

 throw themselves back against the wall, or pace up and 

 down, in and out of the room, as they think proper. Parti 

 tion off one corner of the room, the bottom with boards, the 

 top with latticed wooden bars, like palisadoes, with three or 

 four in the middle to slide up to admit two or three hands or 



