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1. THROUGHOUT the whole of this work it is my intention to 

 number the paragraphs, from one end to the other of each PART. 

 This renders the business of reference more easy than it can be 

 rendered by any mode in my power to find out ; and, easy re 

 ference saves a great deal of paper and print, and also, which 

 ought to be more valuable a great deal of time, of which an in 

 dustrious man has never any to spare. To desire the reader to 

 look at paragraph such a number of such a part, will frequently, 

 as he will find, save him both money and labour ; for, without 

 this power of reference, the paragraph, or the substance of it, 

 would demand being repeated in the place where the reference 

 would be pointed out to him. 



2. Amongst all the publications, which I have yet seen, on the 

 subject of the United States, as a country to live in, and especially 

 to farm in, I have never yet observed one that conveyed to English 

 men anything like a correct notion of the matter. Some writers 

 of Travels in these States have jolted along in the stages from 

 place to place, have lounged away their time with the idle part 

 of their own countrymen, and, taking every thing different from 

 what they left at home for the effect of ignorance, and every thing 

 not servile to be the effect of insolence, have described the country 

 as unfit for a civilized being to reside in. Others, coming with a 

 resolution to find every thing better than at home, and weakly 

 deeming themselves pledged to find climate, soil, and all blessed 

 by the effects of freedom, have painted the country as a perfect 

 paradise ; they have seen nothing but blooming orchards and 

 smiling faces. 



3. The account, which I shall give, shall be that of actual 

 experience. I will say what I know and what I have seen and 

 what I have done. I mean to give an account of a YEAR S 

 RESIDENCE, ten months in this Island and two months in 

 Pennsylvania, in which I went back to the first ridge of mountains. 



