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destinies were controlled and regulated, by the manage- 

 ment or under the Presidency of Samuel Morris, Esq. an 

 original member and a genuine gentleman of the old school, 

 as exemplary and unblemished in morals, as he was zealous 

 but temperate, in his participation in, and discharge of 

 the generous social duties of his happy and protracted 

 life. 



The institution survived the storms of the revolution. 

 Though the enemy invaded and long possessed its hunt- 

 ing grounds, it was renovated by Mr. Morris and a few 

 meritorious associates, who restored it to its pristine vigor 

 ante bellum, when the clouds had been dissipated by the 

 sunshine of peace. 



It is now no morej even the ruins of the extensive ken- 

 nel and the cabin of the hunter, have altogether disappear- 

 ed. Its last tenant we believe, has gone to his last tene- 

 ment. Jonas, good old man we repeat it, yet lives in his old 

 native town, a striking monument of vigorous, healthful 

 venerable age, after an unprecedented life of continued ac- 

 tive laborious exertion, strongly exemplifying (more impres- 

 sively than speeches or books can teach,) the incalculable 

 value of temperance^ and ivholesome exercise blended, in 

 preserving the human frame from a variety of dire diseas- 

 es of a pulmonary or dyspeptic character, and a train of 

 ills, consequent on a life of luxury and comparative indo- 

 lence. 



The writer visited him in December last a few miles 

 from Woodbury. The last eleven years have produced 



