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50 whose dwellings extended more than a hundred feet in a continued line.

To a person who went to see him in the last year of his life, he offered to secure one hundred pounds, if he would engage, after his death, to burn his body, and throw the ashes into the sea. He assigned no reason for the wish which dictated this singular proposition, and the individual to whom the application was made declining the office, he never after mentioned it. Whether he was led to make this request from his admiration of the character of Lycurgus, who had expressed a similar desire as to the disposal of his body after death, is not known; though the idea probably originated in that source. Not long before his death, a friend of Lay's made him a visit for the purpose of acquainting him that the religious society of friends, had come to the determination to disown such of their members as could not be persuaded to desist from the practice of holding slaves, or were concerned in the