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barrassed as to apply to congress for a bill 

 of insolvency. 



Distilling spirits from the different fruits 

 appears to me to be the most profitable 

 mode of making great part of the lands in 

 America of any value. As a proof of this, 

 General Washington, before his death, had 

 erected a still, though he was only nine 

 miles from market. 



From the different observations I have 

 made, the reader may easily conclude how 

 unfit an English farmer is to cultivate the 

 soils of America. The Americans have an 

 usual phrase, that English farmers can do 

 nothing in that country. I feel particu- 

 larly for the poor souls who have left 

 Wales. I have had a great number of them 

 at my house at Orange-Hill, wanting em- 

 ploy ; but they were unaccustomed to the 

 work I wanted men for at that time, top- 

 ping and blading of corn, &c. I can com- 

 pare them to nothing but an old horse 

 turned out on a common to pine and starve 

 to death ; as there are no poor-laws in that 



