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three rooms, of which one, at the west end of the 

 house, had the breadth of the house for its length, by 

 some seventeen feet for its breadth. It had a fire- 

 place and a first coat of rough plastering, to make it 

 comfortable in winter. Across the middle of the house 

 was a passage, communicating with this principal room 

 on one side, and two small rooms which took up the 

 remainder of the house on the other side of it. These 

 two small rooms also were made comfortable, as the 

 principal one was, by a first coat of rough plastering, 

 but without any fire-place. There was no shed nor 

 piazza to the house, and the story was low, so that in 

 summer it was very hot. There was in one of the 

 small rooms a bed, a comfortable one, but I think 

 there was neither bureau nor table, and I have for- 

 gotten whether there was a chair appropriated to it, 

 besides the four belonging to the parlor, or not. Per- 

 haps, as four chairs were enough for our use at any 

 one time, it was thought as well to have them taken 

 from parlor to chamber and back again. The parlor 

 (as I call the room which was appropriated to all pur- 

 poses except sleeping) was furnished with a table of 

 pine-wood, which, for having been some time in a 

 school-house, was variously hacked and marked with 

 deep and broad notches, heads of men, and the like, 

 which, however, could not be seen after we got a cloth 

 t( > cover them ; a slab, of a broad piece of pine plank, 

 painted Spanish-brown, on which were a pitcher, five 

 cups and saucers, and three tumblers; a well-made 

 bench, for sitting, nine feet long, of pine also, and 

 three Windsor chairs. I am not sure whether we 

 found a pair of andirons in the parlor or not, so that 

 I cannot add such a convenience to the list with cer- 

 tainty. With this doubtful addition, the above fur- 



