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then being about four feet in depth, 
and its bed extremely rocky, purfuing 
its tortuous courfe. About four miles, 
we came to the fign of the Harp, (un- 
trowne’.) In paffing along the rocks 
which fo often ékirt and confine the Juni- 
atta, I was furprifed how thofe immenfe 
mafles of ftones fuftained each oiher, and 
how the fiunted trees, whole tendrils ex- 
tended in fearch of nourifhment many 
yards, could poffibly find it in fufficient 
quantities. Yet thefe rocks have been all 
fold, and principally inEngland. I will 
anfwer for it, there are many parts where 
no man can or would attempt to climb. 
There can beno doubt but vetting capital 
in Ameican lands, well chefen, with 
good titles, and to which proper attention 
is afterwards paid, is among the fafeft 
and mott profitable means ot laying out 
money. This I affert and_ believe. 
| It is eftimated that the value of fucl lands 
doubles itfelf in feven years ; and when 
new counties are laid out, the county- 
towns and the land immediately around 
rife in value infinitely fafter. Building 
on this faét, Englifhmen and Dutchmen 
more efpecially purchafed with an avari- 
cious avidity all the iand they could pro- 
‘cure. In time they found themifelves de. 
ceived, and then it became neceflary to 
exhibit the foil and produce of the Jand. 
Nor even by this means did they counter- 
act the difhonefty of the land-jobbers. I 
have been told of foil carried to particular 
{pots, and in it depofited maple, beech, 
walnut, and fuch other trees as mark a good 
foil. This earth has been afterwards dug 
up, put in boxes with parts of the above 
trees, and certificates teftifying the parti- 
cular-fpots whence taken ; then fent 
to London, and the land fold for from 
ene totwo dollars per acre. By thefe and 
other tricks of the fame nature, American 
lands have loft their credit in Europe, to 
the injury of this country, where the ca- 
pital muft have refted, and to many honeft 
individuals. It is, as I faid before, a very 
advantageous mode of vefling capital, 
but it requires time to turn it round, and 
fhould never be attempted by the neceffi- 
tous. Whoever has fpare money, and is 
well affured that the land really is in exift- 
ence ;—that it is good, that there is no 
defe& in the title, and can place it under 
the care of an agent in whofe honelty he 
can confide, cannot do better with mo- 
ney ; but whereany of thefe points are in 
the leaft doubt, I fhould fay to the pur- 
chafer,—-Keep your cath, When large 
Obfervations during a Tour in the United States. 
{May Ty 
tras are purchafed, it is neceflary to keep 
an agent on the fpot, to find out fettlers, 
and fhew them the lands. The land will 
not here (I am here fpeaking of back- 
land, which alone can be purchafed with. 
a view to great profir,) fell icfelf. Emi- 
grants are fought, and great pains ufed to 
make them fee the peculiar advantages 
each large eftate that is for fale affords. 
Thofe who expect to make fortunes by 
buying lands below the market-price, (two 
dollars,) will generally find themfelves 
deceived. The United States fell their 
iands at from two to eight dol'ars per acre, 
payable in four inftalments. Fhe annual 
receipt on the fale of lands by the Trea- 
fury is fomething more than 456,000 dol- 
lars. It muaft however be recollected, 
that the fales annually inereafe with the 
,demand from our increafed population. 
I have been thus diffafe upon this fub- _ 
ject, becaufe it has been injurious to thou- 
fands on your fide the water ; although I 
have no hefitation to fay, that, where all 
the requifites are attended to, it is the beit 
poffible means, with a {mall capital, of 
providing for a family; but where any 
one of them is wanted, it.will prove an 
airy bubble, which will burft and difap. 
point the purchafer. 
~ The Harp is kept by the widow of Ges 
neral Hartley : fhe is a native of London: 
he was of Ireland. Thofe who love quiet, 
order, decency, attention, and cleanlinefs, 
in atavern, will here be gratified fully. 
We had exeellent veal-cutlets and trim- 
mings for dinner, with fine old brandy, 
and afterwards a good bottle of found 
Madeira. For this dinner we were char- 
ged twenty-five cents each. At about five 
handred yards from the dcor of the tavern, 
and nearly pyramidically, arifes Mount 
Dallas, called after its purchafer, the pre- 
fent attorney-general of the ftate of Penn- 
fylvania. ‘This purchafe I prefume was 
made before Mr. Dallas was as well ac- 
quainted with the land as he nowis, for I 
can hardly fuppofe he was induced therete 
by the view itsrocky head commands over 
various wild and multiform mountains,. 
At this place Mr F faw fome Englith 
partridges, which I was told were here 
very abundant. We had this day pafled 
twelve waggons, with emigrants, fome 
intending to fettle in the Little Miami, 
fome on the Mufkingum, and feme on 
Lake Erie. Thefe waggons certainly 
averaged {even perfons each, 
Lremain, Sir, your’s, &es 
R. DinMoreE. — 
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