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 he does not increase in riches, while neither 

 himself nor his family enjoys any comfort. 

 He at last finds out that the Americans are 

 not a set of fools as he once thought : and, 

 as he must have a name for them, per- 

 haps he calls them rogues ; which, if Lord 

 Chesterfield was right in his observation, 

 pleases a man the best of the two. 



When I took this farm, I had not a doubt, 

 that, by some extraordinary exertion, I 

 should be able to make something hand- 

 some from peaches, and so near Baltimore, 

 Before I took the farm, when I enquired 

 how peaches sold in the market, perhaps 

 they would tell me eleven pence apiece, 

 and eleven pence a peck on the same day. 

 That used to stagger me very much : but 

 it is so : and the man who offers you a fine 

 Newington peach for eleven pence or a five- 

 penny bit, sells but few each day ; and 

 lives, although very poorly, at a very great 

 expence : consequently his profit must be 

 great on each article. The man who sells 

 the peaches at eleven pence each, will not 



