te, which may
possibly have done service in London, or some other city or town in the
old country. Picture such a spot as this in the imagination, kind
reader; and some idea may be formed of the residence of the medical man
of the place.

The feeling of admiration, occasioned by witnessing the charming
domicile of the local disciple of AEsculapius, is only equalled by the
disgust experienced at gazing on the apparent wreck, filth, and squallor
of the next tenement. Standing contiguous is another such hut; prevented
only by the support of a stout pole, which props its frail and shaken
frame, from ending that miserable existence of which it seems ashamed;
while it proclaims its humility by an apparent emulation of the posture
of that far-famed structure of Pisa. This dwelling is probably followed
by an edifice of a similar kind, though of more spacious dimensions and
solid construction; and, by the sparks emitted from a low chimney, the
din of the workman's hammer, and the dull heavy sound of the bellows, is
distinguished as the abode of the village Vulcan; while the surrounding
yard, with drays in various stages of dilapidation, wheels, poles,
axles, and other dismemberments strewing the ground, presents the
appearance of a perfect vehicular golgotha. With one or two wool-laden
drays drawn up before a public-house, in which the guardians of the
tractive animals, and who are designated bullock-drivers, are solacing
themselves with a plentiful libation of the liquor which cheers and also
inebriates; a similar ponderous vehicle, stationed before the door of
the first described premises, undergoing the operation of lading with
stores for a distant station; a few horses tied up to the posts in front
of the hotels; a few equestrians; as many pedestrians; a sprinkling of
the sable sons of the soil in all imaginable variety of costumes,
composed of the left-off garments of their fair-skinned brethren; here,
a gigantic denizen of the forest standing in the centre of a street,
raising his majestic head high above the settlement, and seeming to look
down with lofty contempt on the scenes enacted beneath him; there, the
charred stump of another tree, with its semi-calcined trunk lying by its
side, where it had fallen at some remote period, perhaps years before
the settlement had been thought of; but had never been removed, on the
principle that each burgess thought it no business of his, and the one
most interested and affected neve