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of endurance, his face is founded on a classic construction (tho' rather shorter in the nose than the standard) & tho' bearing the marks of fatigue, endurance & exposure, as expression of great delicacy & even refinement is evident- great decision & perfect good humor in the mouth & the clear piercing eye of the hunter looks out from its corrugated cavern beneath his shaggy brows. He is erect as an arrow & his [unclear] have yet the freedom of alertness of the wary woodsman, altho' his ringlets are greyed by sixty winters. Honestly & kindness, bravery and determination characterise him -- His daughters are even less educated them himself, being ignorant of even reading & writing yet of naturally intelligent & active minds, one of them possesses the most perfectly Grecian face I have ever seen, the construction & form of the head being exactly similar to some of the antique heads of the Muses, tho' lacking the intellectual expression requisite of those characters -- These girls exhibit none of the bashfulness one might expect tho' modest in the demeanor, this is to be referred to the independent & repub-