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relations and friends, stating that great 

 advantages will accrue, if they will come 

 over to them. This is to get hold of some 

 property from those people, to relieve their 

 own embarrassments. I know of one in- 

 stance, where the elder brother wrote to a 

 younger, who was possessed of six thou- 

 sand pounds sterling, accepting this young 

 man into partnership as a merchant ; and, 

 in less than twelve months after, they 

 became bankrupts ; and the younger bro- 

 ther lost every shilling of his property. 



In the number of men in America from 

 England, I do not know a single instance 

 of an English farmer having prospered : 

 but they live generally in the most un- 

 comfortable manner, or what would be 

 called in England distress. Some men 

 in trade- have succeeded, and are persons of 

 real property : but I made an observation, 

 during the time I was there, that, from the 

 tales which they themselves tell, their riches 

 were not obtained by fair dealing. 



It is usual with men who have risen 



