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advantages of education write very good hands, 

 and prove good accountants, which is most cove- 

 ted, and, indeed, most necessary in these parts. 

 The young men are commonly of a bashful, sober 

 behaviour ; few proving prodigals to consume 

 what the industry of their parents has left them, 

 but commonly improve it. 



The marrying so young, carries a double advan- 

 tage with it ; and that is that the parents see their 

 children provided for in marriage, and the young 

 married people are taught by their parents how to 

 get their living ; for their admonitions make great 

 impressions on their children. I had heard (before 

 I knew this new world) that the natives of Amer- 

 ica were a short lived people, which, by all the ob- 

 servations I could ever make, proves quite contra- 

 ry ; for those who are born here, and in other col- 

 onies, live to as great ages as any of the Europe- 

 ans, the climate being free from consumptions, 

 which distemper, fatal to England, they are stran- 

 gers to. And as the country becomes more clear- 

 ed of wood it still becomes more healthful to the 

 inhabitants and less addicted to the ague, which 

 is incident to most new comers into America from 

 Europe, yet not mortal. A gentle emetic seldom 

 misses of driving it away; but if it is not too trou- 

 blesome, tis better to let the seasoning have its 

 own course, in which case the party is commonly 

 free from it ever after, and very healthful. 



And now, as to the other advantages the coun- 

 try affords, we cannot guess at them at present, 



