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DEDICATION 



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TO 



MR. RICHARD HINXMAN 



OF CHILLING IN HAMPSHIRE. 



North Hempstead, Long Island, 

 1 5th Nov. 1818. 



MY DEAR SIR, 



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THE following little volume will give you some 

 account of my agricultural proceedings in this 

 fine and well-governed country; and, it will 

 also enable you to see clearly how favourable 

 an absence of grinding taxation and tithes is to 

 the farmer. You have already paid to Fund- 

 holders, Standing Armies, and Priests, more 

 money than would make a decent fortune for 

 two children; and, if the present system were 

 to continue to the end of your natural life, you 

 would pay more to support the idle and the 

 worthless, than would maintain, during the 

 same space of time, ten labourers and their 

 families. The profits of your capital, care and 

 skill are pawned by the Boroughmongers to 



