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Thefe are the men to whom Penfylvania owes 

 her ancient fame and confequence. 



If they poflefs lefs refinement than their 

 fouthern neighbours, who cultivate their lands 

 with flaves, they poflefs more republican virtue. 

 It was from the farms, cultivated by thefe men, 

 that the American and French armies were fed, 

 chiefly, with bread during the late revolution ; 

 and it was from the produce of thefe farms that 

 thofe millions of dollars were obtained from 

 the Havanna after the year 1780, which laid the 

 foundation of the bank of North America, and 

 which fed and clothed the American army till 

 the glorious peace of Paris. 



This is a fhort account of the happinefs of 

 a Penfylvanian farmer. To this happinefs our 

 Hate invites men of every religion and country. 

 We do not pretend to off^er emigrants the plea- 

 fures of Arcadia. It is enough if affluence, in- 

 dependence and happinefs are enfured to pati- 

 ence, induftry and labour. The moderate price 

 of land * J the credit which arifes from pru- 

 dence, 



• The unoccupied lands are fold by the fiate for about 

 fix guineas per hundred acres. But as moft of the lands 

 that are fettled are procured from perfons who had pur- 

 chafed them from the Ibte, they are fold to the firft fettler 

 for a much higher price. The quality of the foil, its 

 vicinity to mills, court-houfes, places of public worfhip, 

 and navigable water : the diftance of land carriage to 

 the fea-ports of Philadelphia or Baltimore, and the nature 



of 



