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whiskey, they would make me drink with 

 them. I have been in the house many 

 times, and never saw them have any other 

 bread than that made of Indian corn. They 

 paid their way very well, but not much 

 more: for when they wanted bran for 

 their horses, he ^generally came to me for 

 money for the purpose. These people, be- 

 ing Irish, used to say, when they heard talk 

 of their countrymen revolting, " Oh, send 

 them here : it will teach them to know 

 themselves !" 



The statement and calculation in page 

 381 are made from what is supposed to be 

 the best of land in America ; there being 

 thousands of acres producing Indian corn, 

 that would produce neither rye, barley, 

 wheat, oats, nor any thing else ; and is 

 suffered to remain fallow for two or three 

 years. The Irishman's land, although so 

 highly manured, would not bring either 

 wheat or barley. An Englishman would 

 naturally suppose he might sow such land 



