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of twenty, or perhaps by more than that. 

 I found the lower class of people very 

 bad indeed : but how can it be expected 

 to be otherwise, when the first beginning 

 of them were culprits sent from England ? 

 and since that time thousands of the low 

 Irish, and great numbers of the same de- 

 scription out of every country, have either 

 emigrated thither, or have been sent over 

 for some offence against the laws of their 

 respective countries. 



Though I have paid great attention to 

 truth, and kept myself free from prejudice, 

 my memoirs and narratives may prove 

 a stumbling-block to other writers respect- 

 ing America : but I have done that country 

 more than justice, with regard to the be- 

 nefits that it either does or is like to pre* 

 sent. The Americans are continually re- 

 minding Englishmen of the comforts they 

 fenjoy, by way of extolling their country ; 

 saying, that in time they shall be the 

 richest and most powerful nation in the 

 world; and will consequently give laws 



