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 

 attra6lions 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 corre6t as to the place 



