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 4s. 6d. per foot. The weather being
fine, and our little party consisting of several
agreeable men and women friends, the day was
spent very pleasantly.

A. B. a friend from England,
paid me a visit, having some prospect of taking a
farm in this neighbourhood. His predecessors
for several generations, had lived upon a farm on
Delamere Forest in Cheshire; but the steward to
the present proprietor, having turned him off the
farm, he, with his widowed mother, and several
sisters and a brother, had lately come over to
America, with the view of taking and managing a
cheese farm, upon the Cheshire plan.

I accompanied A. B. to
G. A.'s in order to have some conversation with
him respecting a farm he had to let, and to view it.
This farm was in a good state of cultivation, with
an excellent house, a very large barn, and stabling
for many horses, with other conveniences on an
extensive scale. The spring house, or dairy, in
particular struck my attention, having a trench of
spring water, about 2 feet wide and 4 or 5 inches
deep, running all round the room, paved at the
bottom, and inclosed at the sides with slabs of
white marble.