young women, with their husbands, fathers, and
brothers went on foot. Parties of this sort I have
often seen travelling along, in the old Patriar-
chal style, seeking a country where they hoped to
meet with more tranquillity and repose, than they
had witnessed in the old principalities of Germany.

Considering the stability and industry, which so
eminently characterize most of the German emi-
grants, 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 inconveniences of
so long a voyage before them.

I paid a visit to our neigh-
bour Doctor H. After tea we called upon a family
of the name of Crow, where I saw a little esta-
blishment 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, which at that period, must have
been an almost invaluable appendage to a farm-
house. 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