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by improving her agriculture. What pleased 

 me still more, however, because I less expected 

 it, was, to hear Mrs. Clay, in priding herself on 

 the state of society, and the rising prosperity of 

 the country, citing as a proof the decency and 

 affluence of the trades-people and mechanics at 

 Lexington, many of whom ride about in their 

 own carriages. What a contrast, both in sense 

 and in sentiment, between this lady and the 

 wives of Legislators (as they are called), in the 

 land of the Boroughmongers ! God grant that 

 no privileged batch ever rise up in America, 

 for then down come the mechanics, are har 

 nessed themselves, and half ridden to death. 



932. July llth. This is the hottest day we 

 have had yet. Thermometer at 90 degrees, in 

 shade. Met a Mr. Whittemore, from Boston, 

 loud in the praise of this climate. He informed 

 me he had lately lost his wife and five children 

 near Boston, and that he should have lost his 

 only remaining child, too, a son now stout and 

 healthy, had he not resolved instantly to try 

 the air of the west He is confident that if he 

 had taken this step in time he might have saved 

 the lives of all his family. This might be, how 

 ever, and yet this climate not better than that 

 of Boston. Spent the evening with Colonel 

 Morrison, one of the first settlers in this state ; 

 a fine looking old gentleman, with colour in 



