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EXPENCES. PRODUCTS. 



Dollars. Dollars. 



Brought over 2400 5500 



Third .... 2300 . . 5500 



Fourth .... 2700 . . 7000 



18000 

 House-keeping and other 



expences for four years . 4000 11400 



Net proceeds per annum ...... 1650 



Increasing value of land by cultivation and settlements, 



half a dollar per ann. on 640 acres . . . . 320 



Annual clear profit . . . 1970 



998. &quot; Twenty more : kill em ! Twenty more : kill them 

 &quot; too ! &quot; No : I will not compare you to BOBADIL : for he was 

 an intentional deceiver ; and you are unintentionally deceiving 

 others and yourself too. But, really, there is in this statement 

 something so extravagant ; so perfectly wild ; so ridiculously 

 and staringly untrue, that it is not without a great deal of difficulty 

 that all my respect for you personally can subdue in me the 

 temptation to treat it with the contempt due to its intrinsic de 

 merits. 



999. I shall notice only a few of the items. A house, you say, 

 &quot; exceedingly convenient and comfortable, together with farm- 

 &quot; buildings, may be built for 1500 dollars.&quot; Your own intended 

 house you estimate at 4500, and your out-buildings at 1500. So 

 that, ?/ this house of the farmer (an English farmer, mind) and his 

 buildings, are to be &quot; exceedingly convenient and comfortable&quot; 

 for 1500 dollars, your house and buildings must be on a scale, 

 which, if not perfectly princely , must savour a good deal of 

 aristocratical distinction. But, this if relieves us ; for even your 

 house, built of pine timber and boards, and covered with cedar 

 shingles, and finished only as a good plain farm-home ought to be, 

 will, if it be thirty-six feet front, thirty -four feet deep, two rooms 

 in front, kitchen, and wash-house behind, four rooms above, and 

 a cellar beneath ; yes, this house alone, the bare empty house, 

 with doors and windows suitable, will cost you more than six 

 thousand dollars. I state this upon good authority. I have taken 

 the estimate of a building carpenter. * What Carpenter ? &quot; 

 you will say. Wh} , a Long Island carpenter, and the house to be 

 built wi .hin a mile of Brooklyn, or two miles of New York. And 

 this is giving you all the advantage, for here the pine is cheaper 

 than with you ; the shingle? cheaper ; the lime and stone and 

 brick as cheap or cheaper ; the glass, iron, lead, brass and tin, 

 all at half or a quarter of the Prairie price : and as to labour, 



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