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the ear. All these are wanting in America. Here 

 are, indeed, birds, which bear the iiame of robin, black- 

 bird, thrush, and goldfinch; but, alas! the tiling at 

 Westminster has, in like manner, the name of parlia- 

 ment, and speaks the voice of ^he people, whom it pre- 

 tends to represent, in much about the same degree that 

 the black-bird here speaks the voice of its namesake in 

 England. 



23. Of health, I have not yet spoken, and, though it 

 will be a subject of remark in another part of my work, 

 it is a matter of too deep interest to be Avholly passed 

 over here. In the first place, as to myself, 1 have 

 always had excellent health; but, during a year, in 

 England, I used to have a cold or two ; a trifling sore 

 throat; or something in that way. Here, 1 have 

 neither, though I was more than t\vo months of the 

 winter traAclling about, and sleeping in different beds. 

 My family have been more healthy than in England, 

 though, indeed, there has seldom been any serious ill- 

 ness in it. We have had but one visit from any 

 Doctor. Thus much, for the present, on this subject. 

 I said, in the second Register I sent home, that this 

 climate was not so good as that of England. Experi- 

 ence, observation, a careful attention to real facts, have 

 convinced me that it is, 7ipo7i the ivhole, a better cli- 

 mate ; though I tremble lest the tools of the Borough- 

 mongers should cite this as a new and most flagrant in- 

 stance of mco?<s/sfeHc?/. England is my country, and 

 to England I shall return. I like it best, and shall 

 alwa3s like it best; but, then, in the word England, 

 many things are included besides climate and soil and 

 seasons, and eating and drinkhig. 



24. In the Second Part of this work, which Avill fol- 

 low the First Part in the course of two months, I shall 

 take particular pains to detail all that is within my 

 knowledge, which I think likely to be useful to persons 

 who intend coming to this country from England. I 

 shall take every particular of the expense of support- 

 ing a family, and show Avhat are the means to be ob- 

 tained for that purpose, and how they are to be 

 obtained. My intending to return to England ought 

 to deter no one from coming hither; because, J 



