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on the decline. At the same time there is still so much of it, 
as renders it highly desirable that minute information should 
be had as to the different parts of the country. We may 
refer our readers to many modern works, but especially to 
“ The Americans as they are,” an excellent little treatise, 
which seems to comprize all that is requisite. We cannot in 
our confined limits attempt any thing like an abridgment of 
the author’s observations, but shall present our readers with 
his conclusions, as contained in the following summary: — 
“ Whoever changes his country should have before him a 
complete view and a clear idea of the state in which he in¬ 
tends to settle, as well as of the rest of the union: he ought 
to depend upon his own means, on himself in short, and not 
upon others. Upon no other terms will prosperity and 
happiness attend the emigrant’s exertions in the United States. 
The foreign mechanic who, emigrating into the United 
States, selects the states of New York, Pennsylvania, or Ohio, 
will find sufficient occupation, his trade respected, and his 
industry rewarded by wealth and political consequence. 
The manufacturer with a moderate capital, will choose Pitts¬ 
burgh, Cincinnati, and the like places. The merchant who 
is possessed of two or 3000 dollars, and settles in Ohio, in 
the north-western part of Pennsylvania, or over in Illinois, 
will, if he be prudent and steady, have no reason to com¬ 
plain of the Yankees. The farmer, with a capital, of from 
three to 4000 dollars, will fix upon the state of Ohio, 
in preference to any other, especially if he comes accom¬ 
panied only by his own family, and is therefore obliged to 
rely on the friendly assistance of his neighbours. He will 
there prefer the lands adjacent to navigable rivers, or to the 
rise of the new canal. If he goes beyond Ohio, he will find 
eligible situations in Illinois, and in Missouri. Any one 
who can command a capital exceeding 10,000 dollars, who 
is not incumbered with a large family, and whose mind does 
not revolt at the idea of being the owner of slaves, will 
choose the state of Mississippi, or of Louisiana, and realize 
there in a short time a fortune beyond his most sanguine 
expectations. He has his choice there of the unsold lands 
along the Mississippi, and Red-river, in the parishes of 
Plaquemines or Bayon Bastier; in the interior of La 
Fourche, Iberville, Attacapas, Opelousas, Rapides, Nachi- 
toches, Concordia, New Feliciana, and all the way up the 
Mississippi, to Walnut-hills, four hundred miles above New 
Orleans. All that has been urged against the unhealthiness 
of the country may be answered in these few words. Louisiana, 
though not at every season of the year equally salubrious, is 
far healthier than Cuba, Jamaica, and the West Indies in 
general. Thousands of people live free from the attacks of 
any kind of fever. On the plantations there is not the least 
danger.—In New Orleans the yellow fever has not appeared 
these four years past, and the place is so far from being un¬ 
healthy now, that the mortality for the last three years was 
less in this place than in Boston, New York and Philadel¬ 
phia. Cleanliness, sobriety, a strict attention to the digestive 
system, and the avoiding of strong liquors, and exposure to 
heat, or to the rising miasmata, will keep every one as 
healthy in Louisiana as any where else. The neglect of 
proper precautions will cause as serious inconvenience in 
Louisiana as in any other country. This is the real condition 
of the state, and those acquainted with it will readily bear 
testimony to the correctness of my opinion, that it holds out 
not only to British emigrants, but also to capitalists of that 
country, advantages far surpassing those of their own vast 
dominions in any quarter of the globe.” 
“ In Louisiana they should embark a part of their capital, 
not in land speculations, or in buying extensive tracts, which 
they have to sell in the course of time in small parcels, but in 
plantations. These are sources of wealth far superior to the 
gold mines of Mexico, and are guaranteed by a firm consti¬ 
tution, and by the character and the habits of a liberal 
people.” 
UNI'TEDLY, udv. With union; so as to join.—The 
eyes, which are of a watery nature, ought to be much painted, 
and unitedly on their lower parts; but boldly touched above 
by the light and shadows. Dryden. 
UNI'TER, s. The person or thing that unites.—Suppose 
an uniter of a middle constitution, that should partake of 
some of the qualities of both. Glanville. 
UNITIMONI, a river of Guiana, which rises in the moun¬ 
tains of Parima, and running west, enters the Maguiritaris. 
UNI'TION, s. [union, Fr.] The act or power of unit¬ 
ing; conjunction; coalition. A word proper, but little- 
used. —As long as any different substance keeps off the 
unition, hope not to cure a wound. Wiseman. 
UN'ITIVE, adj. Having the power of uniting.—That 
can be nothing else but the unitive way of religion, which 
consists of the contemplation and love of God. Norris. 
U'NITY, s. [unitas, Lat.] The state of being one.— 
Those heretics introduced a plurality of Gods; and so made 
the profession of the unity part of the symbolum, that 
should discriminate the orthodox from them. Hammond .— 
Whatever we can consider as one thing, suggests to the un¬ 
derstanding the idea of unity. Locke ,—Concord; con¬ 
junction. 
That which you hear, you’ll swear 
You see, there is such unity in the proofs. Shakspeare . 
Agreement; uniformity.—To the avoiding of dissension, 
it availeth much, that there be amongst them an unity, as 
well in ceremonies as in doctrine. Hooker. —Principle of 
dramatic writing, by which the tenour of the story, and pro¬ 
priety of representation is preserved.—The unities of time, 
place, and action, are exactly observed. Dryden. — [In 
law.] “ Unity of possession is a joint possession of two 
rights by several titles. For example,— I take a lease of 
land from one upon a certain rent; afterwards I buy the fee- 
simple. This is an unity of possession, whereby the lease 
is extinguished ; by reason that I, who had before the occu¬ 
pation only for my rent, am become lord of the same, and 
am to pay my rent to none.” Cowel. 
UNITY, a post township of the United States, in Kenne- 
beck county, Maine. 
UNITY, a township of the United States, in Cheshire 
county. New Hampshire. 
UNITY, a post township of the United States, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Maryland. 
UNITY, a township of the United States, in Columbiana 
county, Ohio. 
LJNJU'DGED, adj. Not judicially determined. 
Causes unjudg'd disgrace the loaded file, 
And sleeping laws the king’s neglect revile. Prior. 
UNIVE'RSAL, adj. [universalis, Lat.] General; ex¬ 
tending to all.—All sorrowed: if all the world could have 
seen’t, the woe had been universal. Shakspeare. —Total; 
whole. 
From harmony, from heav’nly harmony, 
This universal frame began. Dryden. 
Not particular; comprising all particulars.—An universal 
was the object of imagination, and there was no such thing 
in reality. Arbuthnot. 
UNIVE'RSAL, s. The whole; the general system of 
the universe. Not in use. —Plato calleth God the cause and 
original, the nature and reason of the universal. Ralegh. 
UNIVE'RSALIST, s. One who affects to understand all 
particulars.—A modern freethinker is an universalist in spe¬ 
culation; any proposition whatsoever he’s ready to decide; 
self-assurance supplies all want of abilities! Bentley. 
UNIVERSALITY, s. [universalitas, school Lat.] Not 
particularity; generality; extension to the whole.—A spe¬ 
cial conclusion cannot be inferred from a moral universa¬ 
lity, nor always from a physical one; though it may be 
always inferred from an universality that is metaphysical. 
Watts. 
UNIVE'RSALLY, adv. Throughout the whole; with¬ 
out exception.—There best beheld, where universally ad¬ 
mir’d. Milton. 
UNIVE'RSALNESS, s. Universality. 
They’ll object 
’Gainst th’ universalness of this clear notion. More. 
U'NIVERSE, 
