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would stop in the country ; and he promised 

 to go and settle with me and build himself a 

 house there. Now it may be necessary to 

 explain why I would not accept so kind an 

 offer. The cause was this. The produce is 

 so small and the expence so great, that T never 

 saw any land worth having in America. I 

 know a gentleman of Baltimore, from Ire- 

 land, a man of business and good sense, who 

 acknowledges that by cultivating part of two 

 estates (the one, two thousand five hundred 

 acres, within one mile and a half of that city; 

 the other at a distance of fourteen miles) 

 he is at the loss of one thousand pounds 

 per annum. What then could be expected, 

 if it was three or eight hundred miles from 

 market ? 



Large quantities of land in America are 

 indeed only greater inconveniences ; you 

 having taxes to pay for them, while they are 



