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" phia, provided you take it, as no doubt you 

 " would, in the cheapest way, twelve guineas 

 " each, for a birth, fire, and water, for yourself 

 f and wife, and half price, or less, for your 

 " children, besides provisions, which you will 

 " furnish. Then the journey. Over the moun- 

 " tains to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio to Shaw- 

 '" nee Town, and from thence to our settle- 

 " ment, fifty miles north, will amount to five 

 " pounds sterling per head. If you arrive here 

 " as early as May, or even June, another five 

 " pounds per head will carry you on to that 

 " point, where you may take your leave of de- 

 " pendence on any thing earthly but your own 

 " exertions. At this time I suppose you to have 

 " remaining one hundred pounds (borrowed 

 " probably from English friends, who rely on 

 " your integrity, and who may have directed 

 " the interest to be paid to' Me on their behalf, 

 " and the principal in due season.) We will 

 " now, if you please, turn it into dollars, and 

 " consider how it may be disposed of. A 

 !< hundred pounds sterling will go a great way 

 " in dollars. With eighty dollars you will en- 

 " ter a quarter section of land; that is, you 

 " will purchase at the land-office one hundred 

 " and sixty acres, and pay one-fourth of the 

 ". purchase money, and looking to the land to 

 " reward your pains with the means of dis- 



