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out any ostensible professions, on fhe fortunes 
which they themselves have raised; but these 
men are not idle or inattentive to the increase 
of their property, being ever on the watch to 
profit by the sale of lands, which they have 
purchased, and to buy more on advantageous 
ternis. It would be a difficult matter to find 
a man of any property in the country, who is 
not concerned in the buying or selling of land, 
which may be considered in America as an 
article of trade. 
In ty large city, like Philadelphia, where 
people are assembled together from so many 
different quarters, there cannot fail to be a 
great diversity in the manners of the inhabit¬ 
ants. It is a remark, however, very generally 
made, not only by foreigners, but also by per¬ 
sons from other parts of the United States, 
that the Philadelphians are extremely defi¬ 
cient in hospitality and politeness towards 
strangers. Amongst the uppermost circles in 
Philadelphia, pride, haughtiness, and ostenta- 
tion are conspicuous ; and it seems as if nothing 
could make them happier than that an order 
of nobility should be established, by which 
they might be exalted above their fellow-ci¬ 
tizens, as much as they are in their own con¬ 
ceit. In the manners of the people in general 
there is a coldness and reserve, as if they were 
suspicious of some designs against them, which 
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