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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, this visit