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ants in the old cultivated countries. During 

 the time my son lodged with Messrs. Rick- 

 etts, the millers, he heard them frequently 

 say the produce of wheat brought to the 

 market of Alexandria was so scanty, that 

 they must leave their mill, and go to some 

 part where wheat was more plentiful.* 

 Those authors who have represented Ame- 

 rica as possessing peculiar advantages, are all 

 men who have left this kingdom in anger, 

 and described the plausible benefits likely to 

 be obtained by adventurous speculators, be- 

 fore they knew any more of the country than 

 those who have never seen it : they write 

 with a determination to do all the harm 

 they can to their mother-country, out of 

 boast to their friends. Thus, for instance, 

 Tom Paine, Cooper, Imly, Priestley, and 

 others, who have no judgment in land, 

 say, that one tree naturally produces sugar, 

 another cabbages ; and that potatoes grow 

 spontaneously: having been said to come 

 originally from America, the emigrant sup- 

 poses all those things grow there by nature ; 



