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849. IN giving an account of the United States 

 of America, it would not have been proper to 

 omit saying something of the Western Countries, 

 that Newest of the New Worlds, to which so 

 many thousands and hundreds of thousands 

 are flocking, and towards which the writings 

 of Mr. Birkbeck have, of late, drawn the point 

 ed attention of all those Englishmen, who, hav 

 ing something left to be robbed of, and wishing 

 to preserve it, are looking towards America as 

 a place of refuge from the Boroughmongers 

 and the Holy Alliance, which latter, to make 

 the compact complete, seems to want nothing 

 but the accession of His Satanic Majesty. 



850. I could not go to the Western Coun 

 tries ; and, the accounts of others were seldom 

 to be relied on ; because, scarcely any man 

 goes thither without some degree of partiality, 

 or comes back without being tainted with some 

 little matter, at least, of self-interest. Yet, it 

 was desirable to make an attempt, at least, 

 towards settling the question : " Whether the 

 " Atlantic, or the Western, Countries were the 

 " best for English Farmers to settle in." There 

 fore, when MR. HULME proposed to make a 

 Western Tour, I was very much pleased, see 

 ing that, of all the men I knew, he was the 



