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they do not mix in company like other 

 men, nor do they resort to taverns ; and 

 when you meet with them at those places 

 in travelling, they generally converse in 

 their own language : therefore, as I could 

 not speak French, I had no opportunity 

 of learning any thing from them. They 

 are remarkably rude as travelling compa- 

 nions : I have seen them seat themselves, 

 at a tavern, by the fire, and suffer all the 

 rest of the company, ladies as well as 

 gentlemen, to sit round them. The 

 French tradesmen are very steady to their 

 shops, and mindful of their business : and 

 I am of opinion that they have brought 

 large sums of money into America, with 

 which they have built fine houses ; very 

 few of them have laid it out in land, as I 

 do not know a single instance of a French- 

 man being a farmer. Many of them are 

 gardeners ; and they appear to me to be the 

 best judges of gardening in America, per- 

 haps because their own climate and soil are 

 jnore nearly similar to those of America, 



