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their families receive the necessary articles* the price of which is 
deducted from their wages. Every workman has his leaf in a large 
book* wherein his account stands* and besides a small pass-book, 
wherein a copy of his account is written. Every month* or if the 
workman prefers oftener, a settlement is made, and he receives a 
note on the treasurer for the money owing to him* unless he 
wishes it to remain in the treasurer’s hands. The company makes 
a great profit in this manner, and the greater part of the money 
expended flows back again into its treasury. The ground three 
miles up and down the Lehigh* belongs to the company* so that 
no one can dispute with them the monopoly of keeping a store. 
If other companies should be formed to dig coals in the mountains 
above Mauch Chunk* where great quantities are said to be found* 
they could not gain much, as this society has taken possession of 
the only outlet* the Lehigh* and on account of the locks could 
lay many difficulties in the way with regard to the transportation 
of other coal. 
I visited Mr. White in his tasteful house on the declivity of 
a mountain, whence he may see thp whole of Mauch Chunk. 
He has a park behind his house* with tame game* which eat 
out of his hands. They consist of two stags and a female elk 
and her young one* which is already nearly as large and strong 
as a horse. They were obliged to shoot the male elk last 
autumn, as he attacked Mr. White and gave him eight wounds 
in the legs, with his horns* which confined the poor man about a 
month to his bed. The assistant of Mr. White ran to aid him* but 
received some wounds himself in the body* and would have been 
killed by the furious animal* if* at the cry of the two unfortunate 
men, a number of people had not hastened with poles and clubs 
to relieve them. 
At five o’clock in the evening* I left the interesting Mauch 
Chunk and went sixteen miles on the road to Bethlehem, as far 
as Cherry ville. At Lehigh ton I took the left shore of the Lehigh 
passing two small creeks* Big creek and Aquanshicola creek* and 
at last* (for the fifth time*) the Blue Mountains, through Lehigh 
Water Gap. This country must be very handsome* and it was 
with regret that I saw so little of it* but it began to grow dark,, 
was very rainy weather* and thick clouds covered the Blue Moun¬ 
tains. Two miles from Water Gap we passed through a small 
place called Berlinville* and were yet two miles distant from 
Cherryville. In the darkness we could not see the posts which 
stand wherever roads cross* and there was no turnpike. We ac¬ 
cordingly lost our way, and at a cross road knew not which direc¬ 
tion to take. We ran about in the rain and the darkness, but 
found nothing which could have directed us. At last we took a 
road at random* fortunately the right one! But it was midnight 
