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fity. There is not even the fmalieft foreign accent 

 remarked in their pronunciation. 



You meet with no rich rtieri in this country, and 

 it is really great pity, every one endeavouring to 

 put as good a face on it as poffible, and nobody 

 fcarce thinking of laying up wealth. They make 

 good cheer, provided they are alfo able to be at the 

 expence of fine cloaths ; if not, they retrench in the 

 article of the table to be able to appear well dreffedo 

 And indeed, we muft allow, that drefs becomes 

 our Creolians extremely well. They are all here of 

 very advantageous ftature, arid both fexes have the 

 lined complexion in the world ; a ga"y and fprightly 

 behaviour, with great fweetnefs and politenefs of 

 manners are common to all of them ; and the leaft 

 rufticity, either in language or behaviour, is utter- 

 ly unknown even in the remoteft and moft diftant 

 parts. 



The cafe is very different as I am informed with 

 fefpect to our Englifh neighbours, and to judge of 

 the two colonies by the way of life, behaviour, and 

 fpeech of the inhabitants, nobody would hefitate 

 to fay that ours were the mod fiourifhing. In New- 

 England and the other provinces of the continent 

 of America, febjeffc to the Britifti empire, there 

 prevails an opulence which they are utterly at a lofs 

 how to ufe ; and in New France, a poverty hid by 

 an air of being in eafy circumflances, which feems 

 hot at all ftudied. Trade, and the cultivation of 

 their plantations Itrengthen the firft, whereas the 

 fecond is fupported by the indufiry of its inhabitants,' 

 and the tafte of the nation diffufes oyer it fome- 

 thing infinitely pleafirig. The Englrfh planter a- 

 rnafles wealth, and never makes any fuperfluous ex- 

 pence , the French inhabitant again enjoys what he 



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