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himself so deceived and disappointed when 

 he arrived in America, is so much disgusted 

 as to brand the whole of the people with 

 being a set of rascals altogether. Indeed* 

 such a one will find a strange difference 

 between the former part of his life as an 

 English farmer, and the employments re- 

 quired on the lands in America ; occupa- 

 tions as different as those of a taylor and a 

 blacksmith. He will have to chop up 

 trees, and cultivate the land by the hoe and 

 pick-ax instead of the plough and harrows. 

 The implements of husbandry being so 

 expensive, and the produce of the land 

 being so small, he will be compelled to 

 make them himself, whence we may be 

 sure that they will prove of an inferior kind* 

 even when the land is got into a state pro- 

 per to use them ; but it is some time after 

 the timber is destroyed before they can be 



