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allowed to put ray horses in his stable for the 
night. The reception, however, which this 
gentleman gave me, differed so materially from 
what 1 had been led to expect, that i was 
i 
lianav at hearing from him, that there was a 
good tavern at the distance of two- miles. 1 
apologised for the liberty I bad taken, and 
made the best of my way to it. Instead of two 
miles, however, this tavern proved to be about 
three times as far off, and when I came to it, I 
found it to be -a most wretched hovel; but any 
place was preferable to the house of a man so 
th oroxighly devoid of liospitality. 
The next day I arrived at this place, the 
residence of a gentleman, who, when at Phi¬ 
ladelphia, had invited me to pass some time 
with him whenever I visited Virginia. Some 
of the neighbouring gentlemen yesterday dined 
here together, and having related to them my 
adventures, on arriving in Virginia, the whole 
company ex\ ressed the greatest astonishment, 
and. assured me that it was never known be¬ 
fore, in that part-of Virginia, that a stranger 
had been suffered to go away from a gentle¬ 
man’s house,, where he stopped, to a tavern, al¬ 
though it was close by. Every one seemed 
eager to know the name of the person who 
baa given me such a reception, and begged me 
to tell it. I did so, and the Virginians were 
satisfied, for the person - was a—Scotsman, 
