, but these events, slight and confused as they are, suggest, when compared to the paintings, that he gave most of his energies to life rather than to his art. Slightness of real material, how- ever, in writing a biography or art criticism should not discourage. Bi- ography being usually written by

. The act states that, "Whereas, by the act to which this is a supplement, Abraham Witmer, of the county of Lancaster, was authorized to erect, and in pursuance of that authority did erect, a bridge over the Conestogoe Creek on the great road leading from the City of Philadelphia to the bor- ough of

before he ran away, and Abraham was to be sold. We found him a very nice, good, faithful young man, very par- ticular and conscientious in every re- spect. Judge for thyself, when I tell thee, toward the last of his living with us, my parents went to Bucks county on a visit of several weeks; the kid