GENERAL FB.EFACE 



a resolution to find every thing better than at home. 

 and weakly deeming themselves pledged to find 

 climate, soil and all blessed by the effects of free- 

 dom, have painted the country as a perfect para- 

 dise ; they have seen nothing but blooming or- 

 chards and smiling faces. 



3. The account, which I shall give, shall be that 

 of actual experience. I will say what I kao-so and 

 what I have seen and what I have done. I mean to 

 give an account of a year's residence, ten months 

 in this Island and two months in Pennsylvania, in 

 which I went back to the first ridge of mountains. 

 In the course of the three parts, of which this 

 work will consist, each part making a small vo- 

 lume, every thing which appears to me useful to 

 persons intending to come to this country shall be 

 communicated ; but more especially that which 

 may be useful io farmers ; because, as to such mat- 

 ters, I have ample experience. Indeed, this is the 

 nnain thing ; for this is really and truly a country of 

 farmers. Here Governors, Legislators, Presidents, 



all are farmers. A farmer here is not the poor de- 

 pendent wretch that a Yeomanry-Cavalry man is, 

 or that a Treason-Jury man is. A farmer here de- 

 pends on nobody but himself lAud on his own proper 

 means ; and, if he be not at his ease, and even rich, 

 it must be his own fault. 



4. To make men clearly see what they may do 

 in any situation of life, one of the best modes, if not 

 the very best is, to give them, in detail, an account 

 of what one has done one's-self in that same situa- 

 tion, and how and when and where-one has done it. 

 This, as far as relates to farming, and house keep- 

 ing in the country, is the mode that 1 shall pursue. 



1 shall give an account of what I have done ; and, 

 wliile this will convince any good farmer, or any 

 man of tolerable means, that he may, if he will, do 

 the same, it will give him an idea of the climate, 

 .soil, crops, &c. a thousand times more neat and 



