1XXX LIFE OF AVILSON. 



two feet long. I staid here two days, and again set off for 



Newburyport, through a rocky, uncultivated, steril country. 



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" I travelled on through New Hampshire, stopping at every 

 place where I was likely to do any business; and went as far 

 east as Portland in Maine, where I staid three days, and, the 

 supreme court being then sitting, I had an opportunity of see- 

 ing and conversing with people from the remotest boundaries 

 of the United States in this quarter, and received much inter- 

 esting information from them with regard to the birds that fre- 

 quent these northern regions. From Portland I directed my 

 course across the country, among dreary savage glens, and 

 mountains covered with pines and hemlocks, amid whose black 

 and half-burnt trunks the everlasting rocks and stones, that co- 

 ver this country, " grinned horribly." One hundred and fifty- 

 seven miles brought me to Dartmouth College, Newhampshire, 

 on the Vermont line. Here I paid my addresses to the reve- 

 rend fathers of literature, and met with a kind and obliging 

 reception. Dr. Wheelock, the president, made me eat at his 

 table, and the professors vied with each other to oblige me. 



" I expect to be in Albany in five days, and if the legislature 

 be sitting, I shall be detained perhaps three days there. In 

 eight days more I hope to be in Philadelphia. I have laboured 

 with the zeal of a knight errant in exhibiting this book of mine, 

 wherever I went, travelling with it, like a beggar with his 

 bantling, from town to town, and from one country to another. 

 I have been loaded with praises with compliments and kind- 

 nesses shaken almost to pieces in stage coaches; have wan- 

 dered among strangers, hearing the same O's and *fth's, and 

 telling the same story a thousand times over and for what? 

 Ay, that's it! You are very anxious to know, and you shall 

 know the whole when I reach Philadelphia." 



