GENERAL PREFACE 



THREE PARTS. 



1. Throughout the whole of this work it is 



my intention to number the paragraphs, from one end 

 to the other ofeach Part. This renders the busines« 

 of reference more easy than it can be rendered by any 

 mode in my power to find out; and, easy reference 

 saves a great deal of paper and print, and also, which 

 ought to be more valuable, a great deal of time, of 

 which an industrious man has never any to spare. To 

 desire the reader to look at paragraph such a number 

 of such a part, will frequently, as he will find, save 

 him both money and labour; for, without this power 

 of reference, the paragraph, or the substance of it, 

 would demand being repeated in the place where the 

 reference would be pointed out to him. 



2. Amongst all the publications, which I have yet 

 seen, on the subject of the United States, as a country 

 to live in, and especially to farm in, I have never yet 



