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SECTION XXXIV. 



Observations relative to the Americans by a 

 Canadian Gentleman, corroborating the Au- 

 thor's Remarks. 



DURING the time my work was In the 

 press, a gentleman of Canada published, in 

 one of the London papers, an account of a 

 tour he had taken of three months in the 

 United States of America. His ideas ap- 

 pearing to corroborate my sentiments re- 

 specting that country, a friend sent me the 

 article to read. To shew that other men 

 see America with the same eyes as my- 

 self, I shall therefore take the liberty to 

 draw a few extracts from what he wrote : 

 He says, " It was the first time he visited this 

 pretended land of liberty and liberality ; he 

 knew it only from the description which he 

 had read, and of course was much preju- 

 diced in its favour. Being accustomed to 



