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" charging the other three-fourths as they be- 

 " come due, in two, three, and four years. 

 " You will build a house with fifty dollars; 

 " and you will find it extremely comfortable 

 " and convenient, as it will be really and truly 

 " yours. Two horses will cost, with harness 

 " and plough, one hundred. Cows, and hogs, 

 "and seed corn, and fencing, with other ex- 

 " penses, will require the remaining two hund- 

 " red and ten dollars. This beginning, humble 

 " as it appears, is affluence and splendour, com- 

 " pared with the original outfit of settlers in 

 " general. Yet no man remains in poverty, who 

 " possesses even moderate industry and eco- 

 " nomy, and especially of time. You would of 

 " course bring with you your sea-bedding and 

 " store of blankets, for you will need them on 

 " the Ohio ; and you should leave England 

 " with a good stock of wearing apparel. Your 

 " luggage must be composed of light articles, 

 " on account of the costly land-carriage from 

 " the Eastern port to Pittsburgh, which will 

 " be from seven to ten dollars per 100 Ibs. 

 u nearly sixpence sterling per pound. A few 

 " simple medicines of good quality are indis- 

 " pensable, such as calomel, bark in powder, 

 " castor oil, calcined magnesia, laudanum ; 

 " they may be of the greatest importance on 

 " the voyage and journey, as well as after 



