PART III.J MORRIS BIRKBECK, ESQ. 



cumstances. The settlers, who have gone from 

 the New England States, have, in general, been 

 able men with families of stout sons. The con 

 tracted farm in New England sells for money 

 enough to buy the land for five or six farms in 

 the West. These farms are made by the labour 

 of the owners. They hire nobody. They live 

 any how for a while. I will engage that the 

 labour performed by one stout New England 

 family in one year, would cost an English farmer 

 a thousand pounds in wages. You will say, why 

 cannot the English labour as hard as the Yan 

 kees? But, mind, 1 talk of a, family of Yan 

 kee sons ; and, besides, I have no scruple to say, 

 that one of these will do as much work in the 

 clearing and fencing of a farm, and in the erec 

 tion of buildings, as four or Jive English of the 

 same age and size. Yet, have many of the New 

 England farmers returned. Even they have had 

 cause to repent of their folly. What hope is 

 there, then, that English farmers will succeed? 

 1018. It so happens, that I ham seen new set 

 tlements formed. 1 have seen lands cleared. I 

 have seen crowds of people coming and squat 

 ting down in woods or little islands, and by the 

 sides of rivers. 1 have seen the log-hut raised ; 

 the bark covering put on; I have heard the 

 bold language of the adventurers ; and I have 

 witnessed their subsequent miseries. They 



