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stroyed by the grub : and in those back 

 countries, to which the emigrants attempt- 

 ed to go, from five to eight hundred miles 

 from market, he cannot calculate on more 

 then one half the price for his produce ; 

 and, if the reader will observe those ac- 

 counts, not near so much as half what it 

 would fetch at New York, Philadelphia, 

 Baltimore, or Alexandria : and every thing 

 he has to buy is much dearer. His cloth- 

 ing, coffee, tea, sugar, &c. having that 

 distance to go, and by land carriage, these 

 articles come very high. And if he want 

 a blacksmith to do any thing, he will per- 

 haps have several miles to ride or walk, 

 from ten to thirty miles; a taylor the same. 

 If he have any windows in his house, which 

 are rare — it is usual to have two doors to 

 the house, one on each side; they shut that 

 on the side the wind blows, and open the 

 other for light; which was the case with 

 my kitchen at Orange-Hill — aad they hap- 

 pen to be broken, they must remain so: he 

 will not find either glass or glazier : for, in 



