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performances, Lord Byron’s stanzas to his wife after their sepa¬ 
ration were extremely well recited. Between the two parts of 
the concert the music played a march, each gentleman gave a 
lady his arm, and a promenade took place, resembling a Polo¬ 
naise with pretty figures, sometimes in two couples, sometimes 
in four; two ladies in the middle, the gentlemen separated from 
the ladies, then again all together. The concert closed with a 
lively cotillion. I was, on the whole, much amused; and Mr. 
Huygens took an active share in the dancing. This general 
evening amusement takes place often in the week; besides, on 
Tuesday, there is a general ball. There is a particular costume 
adopted for the society. That for the men consists of wide pan¬ 
taloons buttoned over a boy’s jacket, made of light material, 
without a collar; that of the women of a coat reaching to the 
knee and pantaloons, such as little girls wear among us. These 
dresses are not universally adopted, but they have a good ap¬ 
pearance. An elderly French lady, who presides over the de¬ 
partment of young mothers, and the nursing of all the very small 
children, stuck by my side during a large portion of the evening, 
and tormented me with her philosophical views. All the men 
did not take a share in the dance, i. e. the lower class, but read 
newspapers, which were scattered over the side-tables. 
The public house in which we lived was conducted on account 
of the society. General Evans was looked for, who was to 
keep the house; in the mean time it was directed by the physi¬ 
cian of the society, Dr. M‘Namee, from Vincennes. Among 
the public buildings I remarked two of which the lower part 
was strongly built with rough stone, and provided with loop¬ 
holes. The larger of these was the granary, and it was reasona¬ 
bly thought that Rapp had this built as a defensive redoubt for his 
own people. At the first period of his establishment in this coun¬ 
try he not only had the Indians, but also the rude people known 
under the general title of backwoodsmen, who not only saw the 
establishment of such a society with jealous eyes, which they 
knew would be wealthy in a short time, but also entertained a 
grudge against Rapp’s unnatural rules of chastity. 
On the morning of the 14th of April, I strolled about the 
place to look round me. I visited Mr. Neef, but found his wife 
only at home, a native of Memmingen, in Swabia. Her husband 
was in the act of leading the boys out to labour. Military exer¬ 
cises form a part of the instruction of the children. I saw the 
boys divided into two ranks, and parted into detachments march¬ 
ing to labour, and on the way they performed various wheelings 
and evolutions. All the boys and girls have a very healthy look, 
are cheerful and lively, and by no means bashful. The boys la¬ 
bour in the field and garden, and were now occupied with new 
