LEffER 



&quot; the Ohio to Shawnee Town, and from thence to our settle- 



&quot; ment, fifty miles north, will amount to five pounds sterling per 



&quot; head. If you arrive here as early as May, or even June, another 



&quot; five pounds per head will carry you on to that point, where you 



&quot; may take your leave of dependence on any thing earthly but your 



&quot; own exertions. At this time I suppose you to have remaining 



&quot; one hundred pounds (borrowed probably from English friends, 



&quot; who rely on your integrity, and who may have directed the 



&quot; interest to be paid to me on their behalf, and the principal in 



&quot; due season.) We will now, if you please, turn it into dollars, 



&quot; and consider how it may be disposed of. A hundred pounds 



&quot; sterling will go a great way in dollars. With eighty dollars you 



will enter a quarter section of land ; that is, you will purchase 



at the land-office one hundred and sixty acres, and pay one- 



fourth of the purchase money, and looking to the land to reward 



4 your pains with the means of discharging the other three-fourths 



as they become due, in two, three, and four years. You will 



build a house with fifty dollars ; and you will find it extremely 



comfortable and convenient, as it will be really and truly yours. 



Two horses will cost, with harness and plough, one hundred. 



Cows, and hogs, and seed corn, and fencing, with other expenses, 



will require the remaining two hundred and ten dollars. This 



beginning, humble as it appears, is affluence and splendour, 



compared with the original outfit of settlers in general. Yet 



* no man remains in poverty, who possesses even moderate 

 industry and economy, and especially of time. You would of 

 course bring with you your sea-bedding and store of blankets, 

 for you will need them on the Ohio ; and you should leave 

 England with a good stock of wearing apparel. Your luggage 

 must be composed of light articles on account of the costly 

 land-carriage from the Eastern port to Pittsburgh, which will 



* be from seven to ten dollars per 100 Ibs., nearly sixpence sterling 



* per pound. A few simple medicines of good quality are indis- 

 pensable, such as calomel, bark in powder, castor oil, calcined 

 magnesia, laudanum they may be of the greatest importance 

 on the voyage and journey, as well as after your arrival. Change 

 of climate and situation will produce temporary indisposition, 



* but with prompt and judicious treatment, which is happily 

 of the most simple kind, the complaints to which new comers 

 are liable are seldom dangerous or difficult to overcome, pro- 

 vided due regard has been had to salubrity in the choice of their 



&quot; settlement, and to diet and accommodation after their arrival. 



&quot; With best regards, I remain, &c.&quot; 



1022. Now, my dear sir, your mode of address, in this letter, 

 clearly shews that you have in your eye a person above the level 

 of common labourers. The words &quot; Dear Sir &quot; indicate that you 

 are speaking to a friend, or, at least, to an intimate acquaintance : 



