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make a little beer to support their spirits under their discouraging prospect. Such is the altera-tion that has taken place, that, at this time, the land which was then thought insufficient for the support of one family is now divided into several planta-tions or farms, each of which is considered as amply sufficient for the support of a family in ease and even in affluence. One of these plan-tations is that now belonging to W. J. and on which he resides. This night I lodged at P. P.'s. Here also I met with a smart little Negro boy, who had been stolen from his parents in Africa, and was placed in this family by the Abolition Society. He had the character of being a boy of a bright capacity; and although not very communicative to his master and mistress, he was open and free with the children of the family, and would often, by the fireside in the winter evenings, recite to them the mournful story of his being made captive; with many shocking circumstances that attended his transportation in the slave ship; from which he was liberated by an American ship of war. After breakfast I set out for Merion, in com- pany with I. J. and in my way passed by the front of Westown school. By his school is managed upon a plan somewhat similar to that at Ackworth, but with this difference, that the children of friends in