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would, on account of their great ufe, bear the 

 fame price with diamonds. 



THE fervants which are made ufe of in the 

 Engliffj American colonies are either free perfons, 

 or (laves, and the former are again of two dif- 

 ferent forts. 



1. THOSE who are quite free ferve by the 

 year; they are not only allowed to leave their 

 fervlce at the expiration of their year, but may 

 leave it at any time when they do not agree with 

 their mailers. However in that cafe they are 

 in danger of lofing their wages, which are very 

 confiderable. A man fervant who has fome abi- 

 lities, gets between fixteen and twenty pounds 

 in Penfyhania currency, but thofe in the coun- 

 try do not get fo much. A fervant maid gets 

 eight or ten pounds a year : thefe fervants b^ve 

 their food befides their wages, but muft buy 

 their own clothes, and what they get of thefe> 

 they muft thank their matter's goodnefs for. 



2. THE fecond kind of free fervants confift of 

 fuch perfons as annually come from Germany, 

 England, and other countries, in order to fettle 

 here. Thefe new comers are very numerous 

 every year : there are old and young ones, and 

 of both fexes $ fome of them have fled from op- 

 prerlion, under which they fuppofed themfelves 

 to have laboured. Others have been driven from 

 their country by perfecution on account of re- 

 ligion ; but moft of them are poor, and have 

 not money enough to pay their paffage, which 

 is between fix and eight pounds fterling for each 

 perfon ; therefore they agree with the captain 

 that they will fuffer themfelves to be fold for 



a few 



