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fore, goes and gets cheap land in Penn- 

 sylvania ; his sons will assist him to clear 

 it ; and, thus, they will have a farm each. 

 To a man in such circumstances, and 

 " born with an axe in one hand and a gun 

 in the other," the Western Countries are 

 desirable ; but not to English farmers, 

 who have great skill in fine cultivation, 

 and who can purchase near New-York or 

 Philadelphia. This Yankey (the inhabit- 

 ants of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mas- 

 sachusetts and New Hampshire, only are 

 called Yankeys) was about the age of Sir 

 Francis Burdett, and, if he had been 

 dressed in the usual clothes of Sir Fran- 

 cis, would have passed for him. Features, 

 iiair, eyes, height, make, manner, look, 

 hasty utterance at times, musical voice, 

 frank deportment, pleasant smile. All 

 the very fac-similie of him. I had some 

 early York Cabbage seed and some Cau- 

 Uflower seed in my pocket, which had 

 been sent me from London, in a Letter, 

 and which had reached me at Harris- 

 burgh. I could not help giving him a lit- 

 tle of each. 

 Alarch 13. Same weather. — A fine open day. Ra- 

 ther a cold May-day for England. — Came 

 to New-York by the Steam-Boat. Over 

 to this Island by another, took a little 

 light wagon, that wished me home over 

 joads as dry and as smooth as gravel 

 walks in an English Bishop's garden in 

 the month of July. Great contrast with 

 the bottomless muds of New Jersey ! As 

 I came along saw those fields of rye, which 

 were so green in December, now -white. 

 Not a single sprig of green on the face of 

 the earth.-— Found that njy mau had 



