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for little or nothing, and in all probability 

 the money entirely gone. 



I know two instances of men of fa<- 

 mily, from England, nearly in the same 

 situation. The father of one of them was 

 said to be as much a gentleman as any man 

 in England : the father of the other was a 

 justice of the peace. The one lives in a 

 small log-house, in the most distressed cir- 

 cumstances ; the other in a small farm, in 

 a very remote part. 



To enumerate all the different distresses 

 that I have discovered in the two years I 

 have been in America would employ my 

 pen for months. 



The young man whom I mentioned in 

 the former part of this work, who had been 

 deprived of six thousand pounds by his elder 

 brother, is now insane : and the father of 

 those gentlemen was in one of the first firms 

 in London, a large tobacco manufactory, 

 and Jiad many good estates in England. I 

 have learned all this from the young man 



