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System has, by drawinnj m ealth into great masses, drawn 

 men also into great masses. London, the manutkctiir- 

 ing places, Bath, and other places of dissipation, have, 

 indeed, wonderfully increased in popidation. Country 

 seats, Parks, Pleasure-gardens, have, in like degree, 

 increased in number and extent, xlnd, in just the same 

 proportion has been the increase of Poor-houses, Mad- 

 houses, and Jails. Kut, the people of Eiufland, such as 

 FoRTE.scuE described them, have been sicept away by 

 the ruthless hand of t!ie j:\i-istocracy, who, making their 

 approaches by slow degrees, have, at last, got into their 

 grasp the substance of the Avhole country. 



17. Frost, not very hard. AVent back to Harris- 

 burgli. 



18. Same weather. Very fine. Warm in the mid- 

 dle of the day. 



19. Same weather. — Quitted Ilarrisburgh, very much 

 displeased; but, on this subject, I shall, if possible, 

 keep silence, till next year, and until the People of 

 Pennsylvania have had time to reflect ; to clearly un- 

 derstand my affair; and when they do understand it, I 

 am not at all afraid of receiving justice at their hands, 

 whether 1 am present or absent. Slept at Lancaster. 

 One night more in this very excellent Tavern. 



20. Frost still. Arrived at Philadelphia along with 

 mv friend Hui.jie, Tiiey are roastiny an ox on the 

 Delaicare. The fooleries of England are copied here, 

 and every where in this countr> , with wonderful avi- 

 dity ; and, I wish I could say, tliat some of the vices 

 of our " higher orders," as tlicy luive the impudence to 

 call themselves, were not also imitated. However, I 

 look principally at the mass of farmers ; the sensible 

 and happy farmers of ibnerica. 



21. Thaio and Rain. — The severe weather is over 

 for this year. 



22. Thaw and Rain. A solid day of rain. 



23. Little frost at night. Fine market. Fine meat 

 of all sorts. As fat vmtton as I ever saw. How mis- 

 taken Mr. Birkbeck is about American mutton ! 



24. Same weather. Very fair days noAv. 



25. Went to Bustleton with my old friend, Mr. John 

 Morgan. 



