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future, what with a better established order and quiet, 

 and an internal commerce continually widening, other 

 travellers will have less ground for similar complaints ; 

 and the native savans least of all, (they being vastly 

 more able to get about conveniently and easily), when 

 they once begin to investigate the rarities and beauties 

 of their fatheland. 



At Philadelphia Mr. Hairs, + my travelling com- 

 panion hitherto, left me in order to seize the oppor- 

 tunity of returning to England by the last British fleet 

 sailing from New York. But having determined to get 

 some knowledge as well of the more southern provinces 

 of the United States, and if possible of a part of the 

 West Indies, I did not permit myself to be frightened 

 by the approach of winter from setting out on a journey 

 through Virginia to Carolina. 



