

TO 







LETTER ii. TO [PART m. 



MORRIS BIRKBEGK, ESQ. 



OF ENGLISH PRAIRIE, ILLINOIS TERRITORY. 



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LETTER II. 



North Hempstead, Long Island* 

 1 5th Dec. 18 IS. 



MY DEAR SIR, 



T016. BEING, wt^n I wrote my former Letter 

 to you, in great haste to conclude, in order that 

 my son William might take i( to England with 

 him, I left unnoticed many things, which I had 

 observed in your " Letters from the Illinois;' 

 and which things merited pointed notice. Some 

 of these I will notice ; for, I wish to discharge 

 all my duties towards my countrymen faith 

 fully; and, I know of no duty more sacred, 

 than that of warning them against pecuniary 

 ruin and mental misery. 



1017. It has always been evident to me, that 

 the Western Countries were not the countries 

 for English farmers to settle in: no, nor for 

 American farmers, unless under peculiar cir- 



