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grown in some parts, the land is always 

 previously prepared by planting, which 

 cannot be effected by any regular process 

 of English farming. An English farmer 

 has all to learn, except holding a plough ; 

 for even the feeding of horses, cattle, &c. 

 cannot be attended to by any emigrant with 

 so little expence as by the natives. The 

 emigrant is an absolute stranger to the ne- 

 cessary methods of treating sheep, the pre- 

 caution of regularly feeding them with salt, 

 and the housing them in the winter months. 

 An European will naturally feel the same 

 astonishment which I did, on seeing the 

 poor starved American hogs, that live in 

 the woods during winter ; he will wonder 

 how they subsist at all, in the manner these 

 animals are reared. The character and 

 conduct of the American people are such as 

 an Englishman is ignorant of. 



During the time of my residence in 

 America, I spent a few evenings with the 

 family of Colonel Lyle (a real American). 

 On taking my leave, his lady informed me 



