_Cunningham, Jennings, Hamilton, Blain_;--And it has been the custom heretofore to have all their Tutors, and Schoolmasters from Scotland, tho' they begin to be willing to employ their own Countrymen--Evening Ben Carter and myself had a long dispute on the practice of fighting--He thinks it best for two persons who have any dispute to go out in good-humour & fight manfully, & says they will be sooner and longer friends than to brood and harbour malice--Mr _Carter_ is practising this Evening on the _Guittar_ He begins with the _Trumpet Minuet_. He has a good Ear for Music; a vastly delicate Taste; and keeps good Instruments, he has here at Home a _Harpsichord_, _Forte-Piano_, _Harmonica_,[91] _Guittar_, _Violin_, & _German Flutes_, & at Williamsburg, has a good _Organ_, he himself also is indefatigable in the Practice. [90] This schooner had been named for Carter's daughter, Harriot Lucy. [91] Carter described the harmonica as "the musical glasses without water, framed into a complete instrument, capable of through bass and never out of tune." Quoted in Williams, ed., _Fithian_, p. 59, fn. 1. [Illustration: boat ride] _Teusday 14._ Busy in School--The Weather vastly fine! There has been no Rain of consequence, nor any stormy or disagreeable Weather, since about the 10th of last Month! From the Window, by which I write, I have a broad, a diversified, and an exceedingly beautiful Prospect of the high craggy Banks of the River _Nominy_! Some of those huge Hills are cover'd thick with _Cedar_, & Pine Shrubs; A vast quantity of which seems to be in almost every part of this Province--Others are naked, & when the Sun Shines look beautiful! At the Distance of about 5 Miles is the River Potowmack over which I can see the smoky Woods of Maryland; At this window I often stand, and cast my Eyes homeward with peculiar pleasure! Between my window and the potowmack, is Nominy Church, it stands close on the Bank of the River Nominy, in a pleasant agreeable place, Mr Carters family go down often, so many as can with convenience in a Boat rowed by four Men, and generally arrive as soon as those who ride. The mouth of Nominy River where it falls into Potowmack is about 25 miles above the mouth of Potowmack or where it falls into the Chessapeak-Bay. And about 12 Miles below the mouth of Nominy the River Ucomico[92] puts up into the country, near which River, and about three miles from the mouth stands the lower parish Church of Westmorland County call'd Ucomic Church.[93] The River Potowmack opposite to us the People say is 18 miles over, but I think it is not more than 8. Afternoon Captain Grigg,[94] who arrived last Sunday moning into the River Ucomico from London visited Mr Carter. Evening reading Picteete. [92] The Yeocomico River. [93] Yeocomico Church. [94] Grigg, the captain of an English vessel, often mingled with the plantation families of the Northern Neck when he was in the colony. _Wednesday 15._