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others: it is called the w’^ite or canvas-back 
dmk, from the feathers between the wings" 
being somewhat of the colour of canvas. This' 
duck is held in such estimation in America* that 
it is sent frequently as a present for hundreds 
of miles—indeed it would be a dainty morsel 
for tlie greatest epicure in any country. 
York contains about five hundred houses 
and six churches, and is much such another 
town as Lancaster. It is inhabited by Ger¬ 
mans, by whom the same manufactures are car¬ 
ried on as at Lancaster. 
The courts of common pleas, and those of 
general quarter sessions, were holding when I 
reached this place; I found it difficult, there¬ 
fore, at first, to procure accommodation, but 
at last I got admission in a house principally 
taken up by lawyers. To behold the strange 
assemblage of persons that was brought toge¬ 
ther this morning in the one poor apartment 
which was allotted to all the lodgers, was really 
a subject of diversion. Mere one lawyer had bis 
clients in a corner of the room ; there another 
had his; a third was shaving ; a fourth powder¬ 
ing his own hair; a fifth noting ms brief; and 
the table standing in the middle of the room, be¬ 
tween a clamorous set of old men on one side, 
and three or four women in tears on the other; 
I and the rest of the company who were not 
lawyers, were left to eat our breakfast. 
K 
voL. J. 
