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" withdrawn. My example is very much at their ser- 

 *' vice, either for imitation or warning, as the case 

 " may be. I must, however, in writing to you, step 

 *' a little over this line of caution, having more than 

 *' once been instrumental in helping you, not out of 

 •' your difficulties, but from one scene of perplexity to 

 " another ; I cannot help advising you to make an 

 *' effort more, and extricate yourself and family com- 

 " pletely, by removing into this country. — When I 

 '< last saw you, twelve months ago, I did not think 

 '* faiourably of your prospects : if things have turned 

 " out better, I shall be rejoiced to hear it, and you will 

 ** not need the advice I am preparing for you. But, 

 " if vexation and disappointments have assailed you, 

 " as I feared, and you can honourably make your 

 " escape, with the means of transmitting yourself hither, 

 " and one hundred pounds sterling to spare—- don't 

 " hesitate. In six months after I shall have welcomed 

 " you, barring accidents, you shall discover that you 

 ** are become rich, for you shall feel that you are in- 

 " dependent : and I think that Mill be the most delightful 

 " sensation you ever experienced : for, you will receive 

 '* it multiplied, as it were, by the number of your 

 " family as your troubles now are. It is not, however, 

 " a sort of independence that M'ill excuse you from 

 " labour, or afford you many luxuries, that is, costly 

 " luxuries. I will state to you what I have learned, 

 ♦* from a good deal of observation and inquiry, and a 

 " little experience ; then you will form your own judg- 

 " ment. In the first place, the voyage. That will 

 *' cost you, to Baltimore or Philadelphia, provided 

 " you take it, as no doubt you would, in the cheapest 

 '* way, twelve guineas each, for a birth, fire, and 

 " water, for yourself and wife, and half price, or less, 

 " for your children, besides provisions, which you will 

 " furnish. Then the journey. Over the mountains to 

 •' Pittsburgh, down the Ohio to Shawnee Town, and 

 " from thence to our settlement, fitly miles north, will 

 " amount to five pounds sterling per head. — If you 

 *' arrive here as early as May, or even June, another 

 " five pounds per head will carry you on to that point, 

 " where you may take your leave of dependence on any 



