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of young gentlemen, as well as small farmers, have settled 

 in the country on these terms ; mercantile clerks and 

 men of the industrial class who have saved out of their 

 earnings, are constantly abandoning the desk or their 

 trades to enter into arrangements of this class, or to 

 purchase sheep and rent land, and with ordinary care 

 and constancy do very well. 



IV. 



The river Plate not only affords bright prospects to the 

 possessors of capital, but likewise to the industrial classes 

 of all grades : no man need want employment for a day 

 who can work ; and working, he will earn good wages 

 in every class of labour and every trade. Moreover, 

 good conduct and constancy lead to advancement, and 

 constancy and labour at high wages, and small or no 

 expense in living, enable a man to save considerable sums, 

 with which he can enter into some trade, or stock- 

 breeding. I have already said that in every branch of 

 working trade, there are numbers of our countrymen 

 thriving, well to do, and with realised fortunes. In 

 almost, indeed, I may say in every instance, these parties 

 have come to this country as journeymen, and from the 

 high wages obtained, have soon been able to save suffi- 

 cent to furnish workshops for themselves. In like manner, 

 for agricultural labourers, as well as any man who can 

 handle a spade or a pick, wheel a barrow, drive a cart, or 

 herd a flock of sheep, employment is never wanting, and 

 the supply of labour is very far short of the demand. 



I will enumerate the classes, or some of them, for 

 which as ' settlers ' there are unfailing and increasing 



D 



openings and work at good wages. 



Gentlemen with from medium to considerable capitals, 



