principalities of Germany.Considering the stability and industry, which sc* eminently characterize most of the German emigrants, I am inclined to believe that things must be very much out of order, in their native land, before men like them, would come to the resolution of taking a final farewell of their near connexions and friends; with the perils and inconveniencies of’ so long a voyage before them,Sth Month, Ith\I paid a visit to our neighbour Doctor H. After tea we”called upon a family of the name of Crow, where I saw a little establishment just as it stood in the first settlement of the country. It consisted of a small workshop, containing a set of tools proper for blacksmiths and carpenters, jvhich, at that period, must have been an almost invaluable appendage to a farmhouse. The Doctor complained to us that he had lately lost nearly the whole of his ducks and geese; which had been devoured by a large species of tortoise. This animal creeping on the bottom of the pond, seizes the unsuspecting fowls by the feet, and dragging them under water, eats them.at its leisure. The Doctor had a respectable establishment for the education of his children; having an extensive library, with a pair of large globes, and an amiable young woman from England as tutoress, who was well qualified for her office, hischildren being mostly girls.iSth Month, th.I went over to Philadelphia; and having had several pressing invitations from Doctor G. who had been a fellow-student with my brother William at Edinburgh, Idined with him. The Doctor is one amongst the few of that profession, who retain their integrity by continuing to be consistent members of our society; and he is a very useful member of the monthly meeting to which he belongs. In the afternoon I spent a little time at John Elliott’s and Samuel Fisher’s; and took my farewell of them all, with sentiments of esteem, and of gratitude for the many instances of their kind attentions to me. While in this city, Ireceived letters from my wife and family down to the th Month lih, with satisfactory accounts of their welfare./A Month, IQth.O. J, having kindly offered me a seat in his carriage* I accompanied him to the annual general meeting in the Valley; at which a grea* number of friends and others attended; indeed, a great many more than the house, though. large, was able to contain.After meeting, we accepted an invitation front J. C. and dined at his house, where we sat down to table with him and his wife, their aged father and mother, ten daughters, and one son; being a fair sample of an American farmer’s “family. I was informed that his neighbour D. G. a respectable farmer, with whom I have often been in? company, has ten sons and one daughter: .Considering the accounts I had read, of the homely fare and accommodations of the planters in America, I was struck with .the number and elegance of the carriages we saw on the road> in going from meeting to the house where we dined; part of the way lying through the forest, and some part through a country in a high state of cultiva-? tion, the prospects were beautifully diversified.In our way home, we took tea ^t the proprietor’s of an extensive marble quarry, who Kindly conducted us into it; where we had an op.< portunity of seeing the people. at work, in .separating large blocks from the solid rock. This vein of marble, which appeared to be from to yards in widthy runs in? the direction of southeast, and north-west, through a stratum of limestone, a few feet below the surface of the ground; and it has the appearance of there having been a.cleft in the limestone rock, into which the marine had been poured in.a Jiquid state. Col. H,’ati.whose house we were generously entertained, and who is owner of the quarry, informed us that he had sold thirteen thousand cubic feet from it in one year, at s. Gd. per foot. The weather being fine, and our little party consisting of several agreeable men and women friends, the day was spent very pleasantly.th Month, lid.A. B. a friend from England, paid me a visit, having
