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LIFE OF WILSON. 
tady, but Isaac did not arrive, in the boat, till noon. Here we took 
the stage-coach for Albany, the roads being excessively bad, and ar- 
rived there in the evening. After spending two days in Albany, we 
departed in a sloop, and reached Newyork on Saturday, at noon, 
the first of December. My boots were now reduced to legs and up- 
per leathers; and my pantaloons in a sad plight. Twelve dol- 
lars were expended on these two articles. * * * * 
“On Friday, the 7th December, I reached Gray’s Ferry, hav- 
ing walked forty-seven miles that day. I was absent two months 
on this journey, and I traversed in that time upwards of twelve 
hundred miles. 
“ The evening of my arrival I went to L.’s, whose wife had 
got twins, a boy and a girl. The boy was called after me: this 
honour took six dollars more from me. After paying for a cord of 
wood, I was left with only three quarters of a dollar.” 
To Mr. WM. BARTRAM. 
Union School, December 24, 1804. 
“ I have perused Dr. Barton’s publication,* and return it with 
many thanks for the agreeable and unexpected treat it has afibrd- 
ed me. The description of the Falls of Niagara is, in some places, 
a just, though faint, delineation of that stupendous cataract. But 
many interesting particulars are omitted; and much of the writer’s 
reasoning on the improbability of Xhc^xvearmg away of the precipice, 
and consequent recession of the Falls, seems contradicted by every 
appearance there; and many other assertions are incorrect. Yet 
on such a subject every thing, however trifling, seems to attract 
attention : the reader’s imagination supplying him with scenery in 
* The Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, vol. 1. 
