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memoir op 
the public crier, or the clerk of the market, for I coul^ 
frequently perceive gentlemen point me out to others, a* 
I passed with ray book under ray arm.” 
“ On reaching Hartford, I waited on jMr G. a membd 
of Congress, wlio recommended me to several otherSf 
particularly a Mr AV. a gentleman of taste and fortune* 
who was extremely obliging. The publisher of a news' 
paper here expressed the highest admiration of the worji* 
and has since paid many handsome compliments to it «' 
his publication, as three other editors did in New York- 
This is a species of currency that will neither purchase 
plates, nor pay the printer ; but, nevertheless, it is grati- 
fying to the vanity of an author, — when nothing bette* 
can be got.” 
“ I travelled on through New Hampshire, stopping ^ 
every place where I was likely to do any business ; anv 
went as far east as Portland, in Maine, where I staid thre^ 
days ; and, the supreme court being then sitting, I had af 
opportunity of seeing and conversing with people fTO«> 
tlie remotest boundaries of the United States in thi* 
quarter, and received much interesting information froi" 
them with regard to the birds that frequent these norther!' 
regions. From Portland, 1 directed my course across th* 
country, among dreary, savageglens, and mountains covered 
with pines and hemlocks, amid whose black and hal* 
burnt trunks the everlasting rocks and stones, that cove* 
this country, ‘ grinned hori'ibly.’ One hundred and fifty* 
seven miles brought me to Dartmouth College, New Hamr 
shire, on the Vermont line. Here I iraid my address^ 
to the reverend fathers of literature, and met with a kin” 
and obliging reception. Dr AVheelock, the President* 
made me eat at his table, and the professors vied wit* 
each other to oblige me. 
“ I expect to be in Albany in five days ; and, if tbf 
legislature be sitting, I shall be detained perhaps thm* 
days there. In eight days more, I hope to be in Pbii*" 
