1 68 A Day's Digging 



When they reached Burlington, they re. 

 corded of an island nearly in front of the 

 village, that it " formerly belonged to the 

 Dutch Governor, who had made it a pleasure 

 ground or garden, built good houses upon it, 

 and sowed and planted it. He also dyked 

 and cultivated a large piece of meadow or 

 marsh." The English held it at the time of 

 their visit, and it was occupied by " some 

 Quakers," as the authors quoted called them. 



One of these Dutch houses, built in part 

 of yellow bricks, and with a red tiled roof, 

 I found traces of years ago, and ever since 

 have been poking about the spot, for the very 

 excellent reasons that it is a pretty one, a se- 

 cluded one, and as full of natural history 

 attraftions now as it was of human interest 

 when a Dutch beer-garden. 



Had no one who saw the place in its palmy 

 days left a record concerning the beer, I 

 could, at this late day, have given testimony 

 that if there was no beer, there were beer 

 mugs, and schnapps bottles, and wineglasses, 

 for I have been digging again and found them 

 all ; and then the pipes and pipe-stems ! I 

 have a pile of over five hundred. The 

 Dutch travellers were correft as to the place 



