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to compare them) are still managed (owing to the exercise of the 

 service and the division of labor) with an ease and simplicity quite 

 incomprehensible to an American, who knows from experience how 

 difficult it is to keep a household of half a dozen domestics together, 

 even in the older parts of the Union. Here, there are sixty ser- 

 vants, and I have been in houses in England where there are above 

 a hundred, and yet all moving with the quiet precision of a chrono- 

 meter. There are few people in England, I think, who seem in- 

 clined to say amen, to the doctrine that 



" Man wants but little here below." 



I would however be quite willing to subscribe to it, so far as re- 

 gards one's domestic establishment in America, if, alas ! we could 

 have " that little " good ! 



I must close my letter here, with a promise to give you some 

 account of Chatsworth in my next, which stands, in some respects, 

 at the head of all English places. 



