painted, and which appeared to me neater and
more lively than oil painting, and which, I was
informed, consisted of nothing but the colouring
substance ground down with curds. Here I also
saw a quantity of sewing silk made in this coun-
try, and produced from silk worms raised in
Mansfield, in Connecticut; in which place upwards
of ten tons of silk had been produced the last year.
In the afternoon of this day we visited M. C. at
his farm, which is one of the neatest and best
conducted I have seen, where I saw a ram from
the Straits of Magellan, which had been presented
to him by his brother Captain H. who had brought
it from thence. The animal was of great strength,
and much larger than any English sheep. He had
two large horns standing upwards, somewhat like
those of a goat; and two others growing from
near the roots of the former, twisted like those of
other sheep. His colour was black, and his wool
of a coarse quality. Afterwards we visited Captain
S. C. at his farm, which is, I believe, a very good
one; and it has an excellent house and good accom-
modation, and is very pleasantly situated. On our
way this friend met and passed us, with a waggon
load of slaughtered hogs for the next country store;
but he soon returned, and we supped and spent a few
hours very pleasantly with him and his wife. As
Captain C. was the commander of the Fortitude,
in which I came over to America the first time,
in company with Thomas Scattergood