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the answer " Not at all" was returned very 

 quickly. It is impossible to express what a 

 man feels in such a situation. I remember 

 one Englishman, after repeating all the 

 things that could fill a stranger's mind with 

 trouble and horror, said with a very heavy 

 sigh as he was going out of the house, 

 " It is the devil's own country to be sure!" 

 Among other things, he had told us of the 

 thunder and lightning, &c ; and some few 

 days after, we had a specimen of this, for 

 such a dreadful scene I had never beheld — 

 it thundered and lightened, blew and rained 

 in such a manner as to swim a great part of 

 our corn out of the drills, and to seem as if 

 there was going to be an end of the world. 

 Such behaviour is meant as friendship by 

 these Englishmen ; though it is very un- 

 comfortable to hear : and this I had to 

 suffer every day of my life, and sometimes 

 two or three times a day. Besides all this, 

 the lower sort of Americans (who dislike 

 an Englishman as much as it is possible for 

 one man to dislike another) continually 



