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enjoyments of another kind in the evening of his life. 

 They did not consist in viewing territories acquired by- 

 fraud or force, or fields stained with human blood. 

 They were of a higher nature ; they consisted in con- 

 templating trophies of his conquests over barrenness, 

 briars and thorns, in fields covered with the means of 

 encreasing the subsistence and numbers of men and 

 beasts, and in beholding the progress of improve- 

 ments through the country, upon upland farms, of 

 which he had set the example and in the tranquillity re- 

 sulting from a well. spent life. 



After an illness of some weeks, which he bore with 

 great composure, he calmly resigned his breath on the 

 6th December 1808. 



If in ancient times, the birth day of that man was 

 deemed worthy of celebration who first pressed the 

 grape, and taught man the use of its intoxicating juice ; 

 surely the memory of our own countryman will be held 

 in grateful remembrance by posterity, when it shall be 

 known, that he greatly contributed to increase the solid 

 riches not only of our stale, but also the wealth and com- 

 fort of the farmer, which of late are so apparent, by the 

 agricultural improvements he introduced, and by shew- 

 ing how the earth may be made to produce a greater 

 increase by the judicious application of labour. — In the 

 domestic circle, we dwell with pleasing satisfaction 

 upon the recollection of those departed friends, who have 

 endeared themselves to us by good offices, virtues, 

 and the kind courtesies of life ; the patriotic mind will 

 derive still greater pleasure from the consideration, that 

 a long and active existence had been spent in labours 

 calculated to promote the interest of the community at 



