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What grand romantic Magnificent scenery there is on the way from Fitchburg to Northfield and the River dancing along first on one side then on the other is there the lake any where else South Orange is a beautiful little village I waited there an hour for the Cars on my return. They talk that the directors of the R.R. and all are satisfied now that the road ought to have been laid thro' Warwick that it could have been made and supported with much less expensive and sav'd the expense of the other road, etc. etc. Lucy is quite well compared to what she has been these 2 or 3 years walks all about the house like any body & out in the street some Sam'l is going into the lumbering strong this coming winter. He & Eliab are very much engag'd and doing a good deal in the Temperance Cause they both belong to a company of 40 or more Volunteer Watchman to prevent liquer being landed there, a many other deeds of Dancing S & E went down into the hold of a vessel in a dark night without a light & roll'd out casks of Rum got hold of six hundred dollars worth in on night I believe but I can't remember to tell you much about it Eliab step'd off a wharf in a very dark place and come near breaking his arm it has been lame ever since