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II Hermit.-It is stated in the Thomaston
(Me.) Register, that there has resided for a
number of years past, in the back part of the
township of Montville, hermit of the name
Of Barrett. He has dwelt in cave,the work
Of his own hands, dug in the bank of small
river and carefully secured at the entrance
against the intrusion of wild beasts, by ii
large log, sufficiently hollow to admit of his
entering. He rejects every kind of luxury
which may be offered him, the fruits of the
earth, that grow spontaneously in the woods
around him being his only food; water from
the limpid stream his only drink. Siace his
retirement from the world he has copied the
bible twice, once on paper and once on the
bark Of the birch tree. About year since,
nc moved from his cave in Montvile farther
into the woods, the country having become
so mnch settled around him, that he was fire.
quently annoyed by visitors. He was the
son OF a respectable farmer in Massachusetts,,
who obliged him TO marry woman he dis
liked, having previously formed an attach
ment to another. He lived with his wife
out short time, when, it is said, rather
shan endure the society of her he could not
love. he determined to forsake the world
and its pleasures, and secretly left his native
Town TOR Maine, and tcok up his abode in the
wilderness