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neatly painted ; but a great proportion wore a more humble and 
inferior appearance. The fields around look clean and well fenced ; 
gently undulating, but no hills in view. In a hollow between two 
of these parallel streets, ran a considerable brook, that, uniting 
with a larger a little below the town, drives several mills. A large 
quarry of excellent building stone also attracted my notice as I 
entered the town. The main street was paved with large masses 
from this quarry, the foot-path neat, and guarded by wooden posts. 
The numerous shops filled with goods, and the many well dressed 
females I passed in the streets, the sound of social industry, and 
the gay scenery of ‘ the busy haunts of men,’ had a most exhi- 
larating effect upon my spirits, after being so long immured in 
the forest. My own appearance, I believe, was to many equally 
interesting ; and the shopkeepers and other loungers interrogated 
me with their eyes as I passed, with symptoms of eager and inqui- 
sitive curiosity. After fixing my quarters, disposing of my arms, 
and burnishing myself a little, I walked out to have a more parti- 
cular view of the place. 
“ This little metropolis of the western country is nearly as large 
as Lancaster, in Pennsylvania. In the centre of the town is a 
public square, partly occupied by the court-house and market- 
place, and distinguished by the additional ornament of the pillory 
and stocks. The former of these is so constructed as to serve well 
enough, if need be, occasionally for a gallows, which is not a bad 
thought ; for as nothing contributes more to make hardened villains 
than the pillory, so nothing so effectually rids society of them as 
the gallows ; and every knave may here exclaim, 
My bane and antidote are both before me. 
1 peeped into the court-house as I passed ; and, though it was 
court day, I was struck with the appearance its interior exhibited ; 
for, though only a plain, square, brick building, it has all the gloom 
of the Gothic, so much admired of late by our modern architects. 
The exterior walls having, on experiment, been found too feeble 
for the superincumbent honours of the roof and steeple, it was 
found necessary to erect, from the floor, a number of large, circular, 
and unplastered brick pillars, in a new order of architecture, (the 
thick end uppermost,) which, while they serve to impress the 
