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in white men. The man from England has 

 been accustomed to eat wheat or rye bread, 

 drink beer, and to live in a favourable cli- 

 mate : but he goes to a country where there 

 is no such thing as either bread or beer; his 

 labour is with a hoe and pick-axe, instead of 

 a plough, harrows, and horses. The negro, 

 transported from Africa to the West- Indies, 

 is not half so ill off ; for he lives better in 

 the latter place than in his native country ; 

 the climate is such as he has been used to, 

 and his labour the same. It is easy to con- 

 ceive that this tavern-keeper from Wales 

 will write favourable letters to his country- 

 men ; and perhaps some of those poor 

 creatures are friends of the Welsh tavern- 

 keeper. It is something like Piper Gang, 

 in the horse-trade. The captains of those 

 ships appear, in the eyes of such emigrants, 

 to be liberal-minded men. When one of 

 them is applied to for these deluded 

 wretches' passage, he is ready to receive 

 all that present themselves, without any 

 pay, and to afford them every accommo- 



