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to praise the improvements you would introduce, and 

 nobody to envy you any thing that you might acquire. 

 Where you would find society as good, in all respects, 

 as that which you had left behind you. Where you 

 would find neighbours ready prepared for you far more 

 generous and hospitable than those in England can be, 

 loaded and pressed down as they are by the inexorable 

 hand of the Borough-villains. I offered you a letter 

 (which, I believe, 1 sent you), to my friends the Pauls. 

 '' But," said I, " you want no letter. Go into Phila- 

 '' delphia, or Bucks, or Chester, or Montgomery county ; 

 '' tell any of the Quakers, or any body else, that you 

 " are an English Farmer, come to settle amongst them ; 

 " and, I'll engage that you will instantly have friends 

 " and neighbours as good and as cordial as those that 

 '' you leave in England." 



.588. At this very moment, if this plan had been 

 pursued, you would have had a beautiful farm of two 

 or three hundred acres. Fine stock upon it feeding on 

 Swedish Turnips. A house overflowing with abun- 

 dance ; comfort, ease, and, if you choose, elegance, 

 would have been your inmates ; libraries, public and 

 private within your reach ; and a communication with 

 England much more quick and regular than that which 

 you noAv have even with Pittsburgh. 



589. You say, that " Philadelphians know notJdng 

 " of the Western Countries." Suffer me, then, to say, 

 that you know nothing of the Atlantic States, which, 

 indeed, is the only apology for your saying, that the 

 Americans have no mutton fit to eat, and regard it onlif 

 as a thing ^fit for dogs. In this island every farmer has 

 sheep. I kWl fatter lamb than I ever saiv in England, 

 and the fattest mutton 1 ever saw, >vas in company 

 with Mr. Harline, in Philadelphia market last winter. 

 At Brighton, near Boston, they produced, at a cattle 

 show this fall, an ox of two thousand seven hundred 

 pounds weight, and sheep much finer, than you and 

 I saw at the Smithfield Show in 1014. Mr.Judg^ 

 Lawrence of this county, has kept, for seven years, 

 an average of ^fc hundred Merinos on his farm of one 

 hundred and fifty acres, besides raising twenty acres 

 of Corn and his usual pretty large proportion of grain ! 



