[842] Weld, i, 168. But President Tyler says that the boys Weld saw were grammar-school pupils.
[843] Watson, 269.
[844] Chastellux, 319-20.
[845] De Warville, 126-27.
[846] Ib., 145 and 450.
[847] Ib., 145. All travelers agree as to the wretched condition of Rhode Island; and that State appears to have acted as badly as it looked. "The ... infamous [scenes] in Rhode Island have done inexpressable injury to the Republican character," etc. (Madison to Pendleton, Feb. 24, 1787; Writings: Hunt, ii, 319.)
[848] De Warville, 132.
[849] Weld, i, 113.
[850] De Warville, 186-87.
[851] De Warville, 186 and 332. See La Rochefoucauld's description of this same type of settler as it was several years after De Warville wrote. "The Dwellings of the new settlers ... consist of huts, with roofs and walls which are made of bark and in which the husband, wife and children pass the winter wrapped up in blankets.... Salt pork and beef are the usual food of the new settlers; their drink is water and whiskey." (La Rochefoucauld, i, 293-96.)