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ners and more natural habits of the old indigenous nations, 

 and will carry into the interior, the useful and the profitable, 

 without the unnecessary arts. 



To the natives of lower Germany, this whole province is 

 well adapted, and is peculiarly inviting. Their own language, 

 manners, and system of vassalage, has, in a great degree, 

 been already naturalized here by the Dutch ; so that emigrants 

 from Bremen, or the Hanoverian territory, would feel less 

 strange, and liave less to learn and to alter, in order to adapt 

 themselves to the colony, than any other Europeans. The 

 English must, perhaps, be excepted, whose predominance is 

 astonishing, considering the novelty of their footing ; and 

 who seem already to counterpoise the Dutch as a landed in- 

 terest, and to outnumber them as a mercantile interest. 



The progress of Mr. Vos, in about thirty years, from a 

 common soldier to a planter, who can give his daughter a for- 

 tune of twenty thousand pounds, has in it little but what 

 hundreds may expect to rival. There must be a constitution 

 superior to the climate and to intemperance ; there must be 

 frugality, industry, perseverance ; there must be some know- 

 ledge of writing and accounts, and much alert observation : 

 yet this progress has been orderly, at no one moment remark- 

 able, nor the effect of luck, but of permanent causes. 



