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Latin, one in French, and one in German, were, with 

 great difficulty, kept up during my short stay. We 

 got up a debating society, which histed as h)ng as I 

 remained in the neighborhood. I do not remember 

 the names of the teachers in Elwood school, beyond 

 those of Wilson and Duncan. 



Wilson visited us occasionally from Philadelphia, 

 and I always joined him on Saturdays in looking 

 for specimens in Ornithology, but without success, 

 until I subsequently reached the Northern part of my 

 own State (New York). Wilson's nephew, Duncan, 

 although shy and diffident, was rather a superior 

 man — mild, amiable and pious. He spent a week 

 with me among my people in the Northern part of 

 New York, and left with me a drawing, in India- 

 ink, of the old school house, which had been the 

 scene of so many pleasures and pains. 



Sixty years must have effected a great change 

 among those people. Milestown, as far as I can now 

 recollect, then scarcely contained more than twenty 

 houses. I presume, by this time, the old York road, 

 as well as that of Germantown, on the other side, is 

 studded with houses and thickly populated. 



When our young people went to church on Sun- 

 days, they either walked to Germantown on the one 

 side, or to Frankfort on the other. There was great 

 simplicity of manners in the neighborhood, and we 

 did not often hear of any act of immorality. 



Mr. Gulp's house (where I boarded) was not only 

 open to the waggoner and traveller, but was also a 

 weaving establishment, and the pond, not far from 

 the house, contained a chocolate mill. 



There were a few tradesmen ; there were small 

 farms around the village, and fruits in small quan- 

 tities were cultivated ; but ver}^ little had been done 

 that indicated much improvement. * * * 



The names of persons living in the neighborhood 

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