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particularly inquired after this man's charac- 

 ter was, he had offered himself to me at one 

 hundred and twenty dollars per year, as he 

 declared he could not find himself proper 

 necessaries for the wages he had received 

 from his former masters : his dislike to their 

 manner of living I did not wonder at, 

 having intermixed servants, negroes, &c. 

 I thought this man of all others I had met 

 with had least reason to complain of his 

 supplies. 



As to the American farmer, he knows 

 nothing of England, and but little of his 

 own country; for many of the American 

 farmers are so situated as to see nobody 

 but their own family for several months 

 together : except he be near a town or 

 city, and deal in truck, he has little occa- 

 sion to leave his home more than once a 

 year, to sell his produce, and bring back the 

 necessaries for his family. 



