362 TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES : 
After having gone through the different 
apartments of the female house, we were con¬ 
ducted by the sugerinfendant into a sort of 
shop, where different little articles of fancy- 
work, manufactured by the sisterhood, are laid 
out to the best advantage. It is always expected 
that strangers visiting the house will lay out 
some trifling sum here; and this is the only 
reward which any member of the society ex¬ 
pects for the trouble of conducting a stranger 
throughout every part of the town. 
The house of the sisterhood exhibits a pic¬ 
ture of the utmost neatness and regularity, as 
do likewise the young men’s and the widows' 
houses; and indeed the same may be said of 
every private house throughout the town. 
The mills, brewery, &c, which are built on 
the most approved plans, are also kept in the 
very neatest order. 
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Brother Thomas, after having shewn us the 
different public buildings and works, next in¬ 
troduced us into the houses of several of the 
married men, that w ere most distinguished for 
their ingenuity, and in some of them, parti¬ 
cularly at the house of a cabinet-maker, we 
were entertained with very curious pieces of 
workmanship.. This cabinet-maker brought 
us a book of Indian ink and tinted drawings, 
his own performances, which would have been 
a credit to a person in his, situation in any part 
of the w orld. 
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