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forward perfectly well, mould fettle amongft 

 them, they would not fail to ruin him. 

 For this reafon nobody comes to this place 

 without the moft preffing neceffity; and 

 therefore I was aiked in fevcral places, what 

 induced me to go to it, two years one after 

 another. I likewife found that the judg- 

 ment, which people formed of them, was 

 not without foundation. For though they 

 feldom fee any ftrangers, (except thofe who 

 go from the Britifli colonies to Canada and 

 back again) and one might therefore ex- 

 pect to find victuals and accommodation 

 for travellers cheaper than in places, where 

 travellers always refort to ; yet I experienc- 

 ed the contrary. I was here obliged to pay 

 for every thing twice, thrice, and four times 

 as dear as in any part of North America 

 which I have paffed through. If I wanted 

 their afMance, I was obliged to pay them 

 very well for it, and when 1 wanted to pur- 

 chafe any thing, or to be helped in fome 

 cafe or other, I could prefently fee what 

 kind of blood ran in their veins; for they 

 either fixed exorbitant prices for their fer- 

 vices, or were very backward to affift me. 

 Such was this people in general. How- 

 ever, there were fome amongft them who 

 equalled any in JSiorth America, or any 

 where elfe, in politenefs, equity, goodnefs, 



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