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month of August, for horses, than in the 

 whole of the United States. The reader 

 will observe the many instances mentioned 

 in this work of men of all denominations, 

 who have been equally as much disappoint- 

 ed as myself, which will greatly soften any 

 prejudice that I may have received in the 

 country ; and my judgment cannot be 

 very wrong, for Englishmen there are all 

 in one mind. I used frequently to say, 

 " Why do you not leave it ; I shall leave 

 it :" — u Iwish I could!" was generally the 

 answer. And though it is easy to say — go 

 back, when a man has got his family in 

 that country, returning to England is at- 

 tended with a very heavy expence. There 

 is one thing I am much astonished at : I 

 meet with many persons who have been in 

 America, and speak well of it. When I was 

 there I do not recollect meeting with more 

 than one man from the old country who 

 liked it, and he was an Irishman, driving 

 a stage coach betwixt Philadelphia and 

 Baltimore : nor can I otherwise account for 



