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and wood ducks, which were suspended from my 

 gun, to their acquisitions. This ofier was kindly 

 accepted. A general and desultory conversation 

 ensued, and we arrived in a short time at a small 

 village, and on ascending the steps of an elegant 

 house, I was congratulated by my new friends on 

 my entry into Oldenbarneveld. In the course 

 of an hour, dinner was served up, I sat down and 

 enjoyed a treat worthy to be compared to the 

 Symposior of Plato. I soon found that these 

 venerable friends were emigrants from Holland— 

 that ttiey were men of highly cultivated miiidsj 

 and polished manners — and that they had selected 

 their habitations in this place, where they en- 

 joyed 



"An elegant sufficiency, content, 

 Retirement, rural quiet, friendsliip, books, 

 Ease and alternate labor, useful life, 

 Progressive virtue and approving Heavenj" 



The elder of these gentlemen had received the 

 best education which Holland could afford He 

 was brouglit up a clergyman, and at the com- 

 mencement of the American revolution, he be- 

 came its enthusiastic and energetic advocate, and 

 wrote an able work in vindication of its character 

 and conduct. Tn the struggles which subsequent- 

 ly took place in his native country, he sided with 

 the patriots. His friend held a high military 



