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clothing, coffee, tea, sugar, &c. are very 

 dear ; a bad thing for the farmer. 



A man need not emigrate, however, on 

 account of the dearness of sugar. I would 

 recommend the use of an agreeable sub- 

 stitute honey. Let him procure some 

 honey-bees, and they will supply him with 

 a sweetening for his tea, apple-pye, &c. 

 easily obtained, and more palateable ; for I 

 am told that sugar extracted from the maple- 

 tree is unpleasant to the taste, at the best ; 

 and the people in those back w r oods have 

 plenty of business on their hands, with- 

 out manufactories of any kind. Mr. Wild- 

 man's treatise on bees contains Cample di- 

 rections for the management of those in- 

 dustrious little insects. 



I have met with men of understanding in 

 the inhabited parts of America, who have 

 gone into the back countries to buy lands, 

 and returned, saying they could not meet 

 with any to their advantage : nor is it to be 

 supposed possible ; for none can be under 

 greater necessity than the present inhabit- 



