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country. They offered me some lands 

 belonging to them in Kentucky. I soon 

 learnt, however, that they had purchased 

 this land with the intention of culti- 

 vating it themselves, and had actually 

 cleared some part of it ; but after some 

 time, they found it an uncomfortable life, 

 and a slow method of enriching themselves. 

 They therefore returned ; and one of them 

 being a millwright by trade, they bought a 

 mill-race and built a mill, which they occu- 

 pied : and the late war with France proving 

 a favourable event for the trade of a miller 

 in America (from the great scarcity of grain 

 and flour in England), they were said to 

 have made a rapid fortune. 



But how had they made this fortune ? 

 By such care and industry as are not fre- 

 quently practised in England. My son 

 having boarded in their house for some 



