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Thus it will be seen that those who are engaged in 

 agriculture are three and a half times greater in num- 

 ber than those in all the other divisions. 



The inhabitants of the State of Maine I found a 

 verj hospitable and generous-hearted people. The 

 manners of the American people generally are very 

 cold and reserved, and there is a great want of that 

 politeness which is exhibited among the English 

 people. That open-hearted, unreserved social inter- 

 course, to which the people of Newfoundland are 

 accustomed, is almost unknown in this country. 



The American people, generally, are a moral and 

 highly intelligent people ; in this respect, superior to 

 the masses of Europe. Book pedlars, newspaper 

 agents, tract distributors, and colporters, are to be 

 found every where, going from house to house. In 

 this way, a vast amount of useful information and 

 general literature is scattered broadcast over the 

 country, and brought within the reach of those who 

 otherwise probably would have never become possessed 

 of it. 



The following are the rates of wages in the New 

 England States : Day-laborers get one dollar per day ; 

 servant-girls from two to four dollars per week ; 

 tradesmen from one to two dollars per day ; clerks 



