of twenty, or pcrliaps by more thin that. 

 I found llic lowfr ciaM nf |Kople very 

 bad t' d : but i tu ii be expected 



to be othmrMc, whin the Tir?;! beginning 

 of thcin were culpn: it liuiix V 'md ? 

 and • incc th.ir time thousands of thr low 

 Tri ].. .ind v:. t nu' of the ' 



•cripiion out of every c()unlr^ . vr cither 

 em* • ■ •■ ' r, or ! * .' • \Ar 



for some ofiencc against the lav. f their 

 iwpcetivc ci * ^ 



Though 1 have paid great attention to 

 truth, and kept inyselt Iree : , 



my memoirs and narrative.^ may prove 

 a stumhiing-hlock to other writers respect- 

 ing America : hut I have done that eountry 

 more than jn , \\\[\\ regard to the be- 

 nefit ;< that it either does or is Hke to pre- 

 sent. The Air 



minding tnglishihen of ilie eomfort* they 

 c , by uay of cxu>Hin^ their 



saying, ihai in tunc they «<hall be the 

 richest and most pou .1 nation in the 

 %^orld, and will cunM:i|ucntly give law& 



