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more clearly manifested; and the wall was accord-ingly ordered to be rebuilt. As my commercial and other engagements oc- cupied chief of my time during my further stay in America, I shall now again make occasional ex-tracts from my diary, instead of detailing the various transactions it records. 1st Month, 5th. I attended Merion meeting, and spent the afternoon at H. B.'s, whose neigh-bour, H. J. handed me a note, containing an account of the number of families, &;c. in the Middle Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia, as they stood in the 1st Month, 1800, as follows;-- Total number of Members........... 1330 Families........... 280 Male heads of Families. 160 Men Friends 21 years of age and upwards. 200 In the year 1806, the time when the note was handed to me, the numbers in that monthly meeting were increased, and amounted to between 3 and 4 hundred families. 1st Month, 10th. In conversation with H. B. he related to me an affecting narrative of a black boy, who came under the observation of his brother J. R. and resided near his dwelling at Lewis-Town, in Delaware State. It happened that the master of