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pleasure in entertaining you : I met with 

 the most kind reception. 



Since my return to England, I was in a 

 large company, at a place not far from 

 Liverpool, when a gentleman was saying 

 he had shipped many persons to America ; 

 and they ail had made large fortunes. I, 

 knowing that to be impossible, enquired 

 where they lived, who they were, their 

 names, &c. The gentleman named one, 

 whose residence I knew very well : he 

 is a Cheshire man, and for some time 

 made what is termed Cheshire cheese in 

 America : there is a poor living to be ac- 

 quired by that means. Had I not been 

 previously acquainted with the person 

 spoken of, I should have been unable 

 to contradict the gentleman's report. I 

 have not any stronger proof of the man's 

 real property, or his great success, than that 

 he has given over making it, and now sells 

 milk in Philadelphia, at the distance of 

 fourteen miles : therefore he travels fifty-six 

 miles a day in summer, as he must then go 



