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imports his clothes from England, and expatiates on the superiority of
English boots, hats, cravats, etc. He is a man of unmalleable habits,
and wears his dress of the same fashion as that of twenty years ago.
August 18th.--There has come one of the proprietors, or superintendents,
of a caravan of animals,--a large, portly paunched, dark-complexioned,
brandy-burnt, heavy-faced man of about fifty; with a diminutive nose in
proportion to the size of his face,--thick lips; nevertheless he has the
air of a man who has seen much, and derived such experience as was for
his purpose. Also it is the air of a man not in a subordinate station,
though vulgar and coarse. He arrived in a wagon, with a span of handsome
gray horses, and ordered dinner. He had left his caravan at Worcester,
and came from thence and over the mountain hither, to settle
stopping-places for the caravan. The nearest place to this. I believe,
was Charlemont; the penultimate at Greenfield. In stopping at such a
village as this, they do not expect much profit, if any; but would be
content with enough to pay their travelling expenses, while they look to
gather gain at larger places.
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