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SECTION XXIX. 



On Emigration ; and its Consequences. Anec- 

 dotes of u most important Nature, respecting 

 the Impositions and fraudulent Practices 

 connected with this Subject. 



IT would be easy for me, as a speculator 

 in lands, to have enriched myself if I chose, 

 by accepting those lands of General Stone, 

 purchasing others of him, returning to Eng- 

 land, reporting up and down this coun- 

 try that I had two thousand acres, the 

 best in the world, and there were more to 

 sell ; and thus, deluding as many families 

 over into America as I possibly could, 

 pocket all the money that I had obtained 

 from them : for, whatever money I might 

 receive for the land, would have been more 

 than it was worth. There are often emi- 

 grants in America, who, having got into a 

 very distressed situation, and not knowing 

 how to release themselves, write to their 



