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which are found equally in the mineral kingdom, as in the 
animal and vegetable, and which afforded, on analogical 
grounds, the best reason to predict, that the geological asso- 
ciation of this marble would be found to be what it actually is. 
New-Milford. 
I had some hours at New-Milford before night, and 
they were busily occupied in packing my specimens, and 
in viewing the town and its vicinity. 
The peblic burying ground strikes a traveller forcibly, on 
account of the great number and crowded state of its mon- 
uments, and their being, almost without exception, construct- 
ed of the snow-white marble, so abundant in the vicinity. 
-New-Milford has had the reputation of not being a heal- 
thy town. Bills of mortality, averaged for a good number 
of years, afford the only adequate means of deciding a ques- 
tion often agitated between different towns. New-Milford 
has of late years, had some sickly seasons, and so have 
most towns in Connecticut, however healthy they may be 
reputed. It is true we must not infer from this that there is 
no difference in the health of different places. It is how- 
ever probable, that in New-Milford, the great show of mon- 
uments, (many of them very beautiful in their design and 
execution) arises from the facility, with which the material 
is obtained in the neighborhood. 
New-Milford lies in a valley on the banks of the Housa- 
tonick ; high hills cut off the view to the East, and indeed 
in almost every direction, and this low situation, with the ef- 
fects of evaporation from stagnant water, have, in popular 
opinion, given rise to its reputed unhealthiness. 
This town is situated principally upon one main street, 
with some windings and branches. In few towns in Con- 
necticut, is there so great an inequality in the appearance of 
the houses. Some are more than commonly mean and ru- 
~ nous, while a considerable number are beautiful, and some 
evensplendid. One house, built of brick, is very expensively 
ornamented with the white marble, which, beside many other 
costly decorations, forms a superb arch over the door. 
- Our country isstill too recentto afford the traveller many 
of those biographical, and other interesting’ historical noti- 
ces which are socommonin Europe. It could not, howev- 
er, be uninteresting to know, that this town was the early 
