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It is large, and very sound and commodious. 

 The avenues of trees before it the most beauti 

 ful that I ever saw. The orchard, the fine 

 shade and fine grass all about the house ; the 

 abundant garden, the beautiful turnip field; the 

 whole a subject worthy of admiration ; and not 

 a single draw-back. A hearty, unostentatious 

 welcome from me and my sons. A breakfast 

 such, probably, as the fellow will never eat 

 again. I leave the public to guess, whether it 

 be likely, that I should give a chap like this my 

 opinions about government or people! Just as if 

 I did not know the people ! Just as if they were 

 new to me ! The man was not in the house half 

 an hour in the morning. Judge, then, what he 

 could know of my manners and character. He 

 was a long time afterwards at New York. 

 Would he not have been here a second time, if 

 I had been familiar enough to relate anecdotes 

 to him ? Such blades are not backward in re 

 newing their visits whenever they get but a lit 

 tle encouragement. He, in another part of the 

 extracts that I have seen, complains of the re 

 serve of the American ladies. ; No " social in- 

 " lercourse" he says, between the sexes. That 

 is to say, he could find none ! Ill engage he 

 could not; amongst the whites, at least. It is 

 hardly possible for me to talk about the public 

 affairs of England and not to talk of some of my 



