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were just &$free as you are; for, they, like you, 

 saw no signs of the existence of any government, 

 good or bad. 



1019. New settlements, particularly at so 

 great a distance from all the conveniences and 

 sweeteners of life, must be begun by people 

 who labour for themselves. Money is, in such 

 a case, almost useless. It is impossible to be 

 lieve, that, after your statement about your in 

 tended hundred acres of Indian corn, you would 

 not have had it, or, at least, a part of it, if you 

 could; that is to say, if money would have got 

 it. Yet you had not a single square rod. Mr. 

 HULME, (See Journal, 28th July) says, in the 

 way of reason for your having no crops this 

 year, that you could purchase with more economy 

 than you could groiv ! Indeed ! what ; would 

 the Indian Corn have cost, then, more than the 

 price of the Corn? Untoward observation; 

 but perfectly true, I am convinced. There is, it is 

 my opinion, nobody that can raise Indian Corn 

 or Grain at so great a distance from a market to 

 any profit at all with hired labour. Nay, this is 

 too plain a case to be matter of opinion. I may 

 safely assume it as an indisputable fact. For, it 

 being notorious, that labour is as high priced 

 with you as with us, and your statement shew 

 ing that Corn is not much more than one third 

 of our price, how monstrous, if you gain at all, 



