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emigrant need not trouble himself respect- 

 ing either, as his constant food will be Indian 

 flour, salt herrings, or pork, of the latter 

 very little, and water to drink. 



Now, from the statements above, if it be 

 the wish of the government of this free 

 country to abolish such commerce, I, from 

 my own knowledge, will undertake to say, 

 it would be as necessary to keep a watchful 

 eye towards those deluded people, as for a 

 mother over her child to prevent its run- 

 ning into fire or water : for these poor 

 emigrants are not capable of taking care of 

 themselves ; and they get into a trap, from 

 which they cannot afterwards by any means 

 escape : since, when they are removed from 

 three hundred to eight hundred miles from 

 the cities, it is expensive to return to them, 

 much more to find money to pay for their 

 passage back to England. It will cost a 

 man and his family from one hundred to 

 two hundred pounds in the most careful 

 way that he can contrive. If it were not 

 for the abuse committed on these people^ 



