nal intercourse with him. He informed me that John
Woolman's daughter (an only child,) and her husband resided in
the house when her father embarked for London, which was in the
year 1772, as recorded in his journal. The fact of residence is
corroborated by the circumstance of the search for and
destruction of caterpillars in the apple orchard, which I think,
was related to thee.

"The sage historian of by-gone days, whom I met at Mount Holly,
spake of his being at John Woolman's little farm, in the season
of harvest, when it was customary, and so remains to the present
time, for farmers to slay a young calf or a lamb; the common
mode is by bleeding in the jugular vein; but with a view to
mitigate the sufferings of the animal in that mode, he had
prepared, and kept by him for that express purpose, a large
block of wood with a smooth surface, and after confining the
limbs of the animal, it was laid gently thereon, and the head
severed from the body at one stroke."


While in this neighborhood, I made a call on Nathan Dunn, the proprietor
of the "Chinese collection." He resided many years at Canton, and since
his return has built himself a mansion in the Chinese style. His museum
of Chinese curiosities is by far the most extensive and valuable which
has ever been seen out of that country, and forms one of the most
attractive and instructive exhibitions in Philadelphia; one whose
character and arrangement are quite _unique_, and which has some
pretensions to the title of "China in miniature." It occupies the whole
of the lower saloon of that splendid building recently erected at the
corner of Ninth and George streets, by the Philadelphia Museum Company.
The visitor's notice is first attracted by a series of groups of
figures, representing Chinese of nearly every grade in society, engaged
in the actual business of life. The figures, in their appropriate
costume, are modeled in a peculiarly fine clay, by Chinese artists, w

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