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Rh ladies travel so much alone, it is more requisite than elsewhere, and would be to them the greatest comfort. For what woman of delicacy would ask for aid which it would be considered trouble to give her?

I spent the latter part of that beautiful day very pleasantly, in quiet companionship with my new and only acquaintance on the journey, the already-mentioned and agreeable lady; watched the sun set and the moon ascend in splendour!

In the evening I was at Philadelphia, excellently lodged in the handsome and comfortable dwelling of the kind Quaker couple, Mr. and Mrs. E. T.

The angelic young girl, Mary T. (the sister of Mrs. T.), whom I had seen this time last year lying in white garments on her bed, had now lain for two days in the earth beneath green trees. Her death was bright, as was her state in life, and she lies in her grave with her face turned to the rising sun. She who wrote of the insect's metamorphosis, and loved to converse of the moment when they freed their wings from their confinement, she is now free and enfranchised as they.

I visited with her brother last evening, her final resting-place on earth, a beautiful, peaceful spot.

July 15th.—Ah, my child, how delighted I am with the drawing-academy for young girls which I visited yesterday. It is an excellent institution, and will effect an infinite deal of good. Here genius and the impulse for cultivation in young women may receive nourishment and development, and patient industry and the power of labour have occupation and pecuniary profit in the most agreeable way. Young girls can receive instruction at this academy (the poor free of cost, the more wealthy on the payment of a small sum) in drawing, painting, composition; in the making of designs for woven fabrics, carpets, or paper-hangings; in wood engraving, lithography, &c.; and the establishment has already been so successful, and so great