Visit to Gregory's Point—The Cow Pasture.—Ancient Regulations.—Grummon's Hill.—Nathaniel Raymond.
Thieves, murderers, and pickpockets too,
And every thing that's bad they'd do:
One of our men found, to his cost,
Three pounds York money he had lost;
His pockets picked, I guess before
We had been there one single hour."
Dr. Mather was cruelly treated in the Provost, until his situation was made known to Mrs. Irving, mother of our distinguished writer, Washington Irving, who obtained permission to send him food and clothing. He was released at the close of the year.