He came out to this country as superintendant of convicts, at a salary of forty pounds per annum, and brought with him a daughter of twelve years old.

He is by birth a Hessian, and served in America, in a corps of Yaghers, with the rank of lieutenant.

He never was professionally, in any part of life, a farmer, but he told me, that his father owned a small estate on the banks of the Rhine, on which he resided, and that he had always been fond of looking at and assisting in his labours, particularly in the vineyard.

In walking along, he more than once shook his head and made some mortifying observations on the soil of his present domain, compared with the banks of his native stream.

He assured me that (exclusive of the sacrifice of his salary) he has expended more than forty pounds in advancing his ground to the state in which I saw it.