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ruins of it are fupplied with old hats, or pillows. 

 This fpecies of fettler is feldom a good member 

 of civil or religious fociety; with a large portion 

 of an hereditary, mechanical kind of religion, he 

 negleds to contribute any thing towards building 

 a church, or maintaining a regular adminiftration 

 of the ordinances of the gofpel. He is equally 

 indifpofed to fupport civil government. With 

 high ideas of liberty, he refufes to bear his pro- 

 portion of the debt contrafted by its eftablifh- 

 ment in our country. He delights chitrfly in 

 company, fometimes drinks fpirituous liquors to 

 excefs, will fpend a day or two in hunting up a 

 newfpaper that contains a political publication, 

 and thus he contra6ls debts which (if he cannot 

 difcharge in a depreciated paper currency) com- 

 pel him to fell his plantation, generally in the 

 courfe of a few years, to the third and iaft fpecies 

 of fettler. 



This fpecies of fettler is commonly a man of 

 property and good charafter. Sometimes he 

 is the fon of a wealthy farmer in one of the inte- 

 rior and ancient counties of the ftate. His firft 

 obje6l is to convert every fpot of ground, over 

 which he is able to draw water, into meadow. 

 Where this cannot be done, he felefts the mod 

 fertile fpots on the farm, and devotes them by 

 manure to that purpofe. His next objeft is to 

 build a barn, which he prefers of ftone. This 

 building is, in fome inftances, a hundred feet in 



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