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large experience, like Mr. G. B. Lynes, in- 

 stead of plunging into American life without 

 any other guidance than the generally 

 fraudulent representations of native land 

 agents who conform to the type of Charles 

 Dickens's "Scadder." I have Mr. Lynes's 

 authority for saying that under his advice 

 several young English couples have settled in 

 Virginia, where they are able to make ^400 

 a year go farther and afford them more enjoy- 

 ment than four times that sum would yield in 

 this country. The climate is delicious, the 

 grass equal to that of the Curragh. Excellent 

 servants of both sexes can be found among 

 the black race, and there is a little colony 

 of English subjects in the neighbourhood of 

 Charlottesville, who, without renouncing their 

 allegiance to the British Crown, are enjoying 

 life to an extent which they never experi- 

 enced before, and in some cases saving 

 money into the bargain. 



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