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" dollars. 1 have since added ten dollars to the 

 " cost, for the luxury of a floor arid ceiling of 

 " sawn boards, and it is now a comfortable ha- 

 " bitation." 



1024. In plain words, this is a log-hut, such 

 as the free negroes live in about here, and a 

 hole it is, fit only for dogs, or hogs, or cattle. 

 Worse it is than the negro huts ; for they have 

 a bit of glass; but here is none. This miserable 

 hole, black with smoke as it always must be, 

 and without any window, costs, however, 30 

 dollars. And yet this English acquaintance of 

 yours is to have "a house extremely comfortable 

 u and convenient for fifty dollars." Perhaps 

 his 50 dollars might get him a hut, or hole, a 

 few feet longer and divided into two dens. So 

 that here is to be cooking, washing, eating, and 

 sleeping all in the same " extremely convenient 

 " and comfortable " hole ! And yet, my dear 

 Sir, you find fault of the want of cleanliness in 

 the Americans! You have not seen "tAe Ame- 

 " ricans" You have not seen the nice, clean, 

 neat houses of the farmers in this Island, in 

 New England, in the Quaker counties of Penn 

 sylvania. You have seen nothing but the 

 smoke-dried Ultra-montanians ; and your pro 

 ject seems to be to make the deluded English 

 who may follow you rivals in the attainment of 

 the tawny colour. What is this family to do 



