iTc?. Letter from George Dcnipjler, Efq, I27 



But this If. a long chapter. A Roman orator fays, Arms mud give 

 wi>y to thegown — A modern orator might fay, v/itli more truth. 

 Arms mud give way to time wool the gown is made of. 



At the height of four hundred feet above the level of the fea, 

 and ten miles removed from it, I dare not venture on fpring 

 \vheat, but I have had one advantage from m.y elevation, my 

 autumn wheat has been covered with fnow mod of the winter, 

 through which its green ilioots peep very prettily. I have 

 fometimes believed that this hardy grain is better calculated for 

 our cold climate than is generally thought, if fown on well 

 cleaned and dunged land, very early, perhaps by the end of Sep- 

 tember, fo as to be in ear when we get our {liort fcorch of heat 

 from 15. July to 15. Auguft, and to profit by it. I was pleafed 

 with your recommending married farm-fervants. I don't value 

 mine a rufh till they marry the lafs they like. On my farm of 

 120 acres, I can fhew fuch a crop of thriving human dock >s 

 delights me. From five to fcven years of age, they gather my 

 potatoes at id. 2d. and 3d. per day, and the fight of fuch a joy- 

 ous bufy field of indudrious happy crearures revives my old age. 

 Our dairy fattens them like pigs ; our cupboard is their apothe- 

 cary's fliop ; and the old caden clothes of the family, by the in- 

 dudry of their mothers, look like birthday fuits on them. Some 

 of them attend the groom to water his horfes; fome the car- 

 penter's diop, and all go to the parifli fchool in the winter time 

 whenever they can crawl the length. 



Could your Magazine fugged a better ufe to make of our 

 Highlanders than Oiipping them od" for America ; it 'A'ould be 

 a pubJlc fervice, and not foreign to the defign of it. 



I am your, &c. 



NOTE. 



The Condu£lor feels himfelf Iiighly honoured by the above 

 enlightened and liberal communication, and returns his moft 

 fincere and ardent thanks to the worthy and benevolent author. 

 In a long courfe of public fervice Mr Dempder didiaguiihed 

 Iiimfelf in an eminent manner, by arduouily fupporting every 

 meafure which had the improvement of the country or the wel- 

 fare of mankind for its objeft, and in repeated indances contri- 

 buted to the benefit of trade, manufactures and agriculture. 

 'J'hofe, who are in the lead acquainted with the hidory of the 

 lad forty years, need hardly be reminded of his phiianthropical 

 and unwearied exertions. In faCl, his name is to be found in 

 almod every Parliamentary report of any confequence ; and 

 though conne<fled by principle with the Rockingham or old 

 Whig party, he never for a moment allowed political principles 



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