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both by sea and land. They have little to 

 boast of at present : laws, they have none ; 

 religion, none ; produce on an acre, about 

 one in five compared with ours ; one to 

 three on all necessaries on the average : but 

 two kinds of fruit worth mentioning, 

 apples and peaches ; all the others are but 

 trash, and proper only for hogs : melons 

 are remarkably fine. Their inveteracy 

 against England must arise from the supe- 

 riority of fame and wealth that England 

 enjoys above them; their ideas of liberty 

 and equality, which are such, that every one 

 may do what his inclinations lead him to; 

 and from the English obstructing the Ame- 

 rican ships, so as to keep them under sub- 

 ordination, which they particularly dislike 

 of all other things. The pressing of English 

 sailors from on board American ships is 

 another high offence ; though it must be 

 generally known in America, that an emi- 

 grant from England can for a glass of grog 

 get an American to swear that he was 

 born in some part of America, when the 



