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of Its rural fcenery, it prefents all the firft 

 requlfites of a fuminer retirement. Nor will 

 the mere Epicurean vifitor be difappointed of 

 his gratification, — for the market is plente- 

 oufly fupplied with the good things of life. 

 The fifh, poultry, butcher's-meat, and ve- 

 getables are not only abundant, but, alfo, the 

 beft of their kind. 



The town is, commonly, well filled with 

 company, during the fummer ; but, this year, 

 from the attraction of a camp, and the crowd 

 of military afTembled to proceed with the 

 expedition, it is overflowing, and, confe- 

 quently, all is life and motion. Still thofe 

 who feek retirement can readily find it, 

 whether in the lefs public parts of the town, 

 in the hedge-row path, the lonely fea-fide 

 walk, or, in penfive ramble, amidft the deep 

 {hades of the foreft : — or, they may efcape 

 from the bufy crovv^d, and noify throng, by 

 retiring to the ftill furface, and the tranquil 

 fcenes of the river. 



The town Itfelf bears all the appearance 

 of neatnefs and comfort, and the many hand- 



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