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pie of grandchildren. When we took our seats at supper, the 
governor made a prayer. There was a bible and several religious 
books lying on the table. After breakfasting with our hospita¬ 
ble host, we took our leave at nine o’clock, and rode fifteen miles 
to Union Village, a settlement of the Shakers. The road was 
again hilly, and the country as well cultivated as that we saw 
yesterday; we passed through a country town of good appearance, 
Lebanon, which lies only four miles from the Shaker Village. 
Towards three o’clock, P. M. we reached Union Village, and 
as the Shakers do not allow any taverns nor public houses, 
we were received with great hospitality into one of their private 
dwellings; we had a clean and very nice apartment. Soon after 
our arrival, we were visited by a great number of the brothers, 
who looked at us in a very scrutinizing manner, and asked us a 
great many questions. The inquisitiveness of these people re¬ 
sembles very much that of the monks, to whom they bear a strong 
resemblance. I remarked among them two old persons named 
M‘Nam an and Houston, on account of their sensible conversation; 
they had formerly been Presbyterian clergymen, and are now a 
sort of church-wardens to the congregation. This sect consists of 
six hundred members, and is of more recent origin than the one 
in the state of New York, containing mostly people of limited 
fortune. It had to contend in the commencement with great dif¬ 
ficulties, and was not in so flourishing a condition as the one in 
New Lebanon. The produce of their labours is scarcely suffi¬ 
cient for their wants, they have therefore not been able as yet to 
establish stores, which are so productive to their fellow believers in 
New Lebanon. Their houses are good and clean, they are al¬ 
most all of brick, and distant from each other. Each house has 
a stone staircase leading to two doors, separated only by a win¬ 
dow. The right one is for the men, and the left for the females 
or sisters, and so the right side of the house is destined for the 
brothers and the left for the sisters. In the rear of the dwelling- 
houses, some of which contain sixty members, there is a separate 
building for the kitchen and dining-room, and for the workshops, 
The houses are surrounded with sods, over these boards are laid 
leading to the pumps, stables, wash-houses, &c.; along the side¬ 
walk and the road through the village, there are also boards for 
the pedestrian. At six o’clock in the evening, the members take 
supper in the adjacent refectories; I was permitted to look at 
them. Two long tables were covered on each side of the room, 
behind the tables were benches, in the midst of the room was a 
cupboard. At a signal given with a horn, the brothers entered the 
door to the right, and the sisters the one to the left, marching two 
and two to the table. The sisters in waiting, to the number of six, 
came at the same time from the kitchen and ranged themselves 
