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the only way is to make a venture of large 

 shipments to some part of the world. If 

 attended with profit, he goes on ; if with 

 loss, it being his last effort, he takes care to 

 purchase a large plantation, during the 

 time the real state of his finances is hid 

 from the public. The expectancies of 

 profit, and the rumour of the large trade 

 he carries on, give him credit. He says he 

 is going to keep his country-house, and in- 

 tends to retire from business : observing, 

 he has got as much money as he would wish 

 to have ; the perplexities- of trade are un- 

 pleasant to him as a man of property, and 

 dangerous : he is, therefore, detennined to 

 act the prudent part : and so he does ; for 

 lands in some parts of America cannot be 

 seized by the creditors ; and he thinks it is 

 one way of securing a home for himself and 

 family. 



Another way is to assign all, or as much 

 as a man can raise, to some friend, to set 

 out with again when his affairs are settled* 



