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the sight at the outskirts of cities and 

 towns in England ; those abodes of the 

 poor creatures, who have been reduced 

 to beggary by the cruel extortions of the 

 rich and powerful. And, this remark ap- 

 plies to all the towns of America that I 

 have ever seen. This is a fine part of 

 America. Big Barns, and modest dwell- 

 ing houses. Barns of stone^ a hundred 

 feet long and forty wide, with two floors, 

 and raised roads to go into them, so that 

 the wagons go into the first floor upstairs. 

 Below are stables, stalls, pens, and all 

 sorts of conveniences. Up-stairs are 

 rooms for threshed Corn and Grain ; for 

 tackle, for meal, for all sorts of things. 

 In the front (South) of the barn is the cat- 

 tle yard. These are very fine buildings, 

 And then, all about them looks so com- 

 fortable, and gives such manifest proofs 

 of ease, plenty and happiness ! Such is 

 the country of William Penn's settling ! 

 It is a curious thing to observe the farm 

 houses in this country. They consist, al- 

 most without exception, of a considerably 

 large and a very neat house, with sash- 

 windows, and of a small house, which 

 seems to have been tacked on to the large 

 one ; and, the proportion they bear to 

 each other, in point of dimensions, is as 

 nearly as possible, the proportion of size 

 between a Cow and her Calf, the latter a 

 month old. But, as to the cause, the pro- 

 cess has been the opposite of this instance 

 of the works of nature ; for it is the large 

 house which has grown out of rhe small one. 

 The father, or grand-f.ther, while he was 

 toiling for his children, lived in the small 

 house, constructed chiefly by himself, 



