ee ee Vil 
felves and horfes, and found a perfon en- 
deavouring to purchafe a farm of about 
x600 acres, for whith he offered fixteen 
dollars the acre: how much was cleared I 
could not learn. About two miles from 
Pittfhurg we fuddenly defcended, after 
having enjoyed from the brow of the hill 
avery rick and romantic {cenery. The 
Alleghany flowing ‘on the right of the 
road, and the Monongahala on the left, 
to their confluence, where they form the 
beautiful Ohio. The lands are extremely 
rich in the vicinity of Pitifburg, atid are 
valued at ninety dollars per acre. But of 
Pitifburg at prefent I fhall fay no more : 
its importance demands at leaft one entire 
letter, 
Inthis day’sjourney we met fome of Mr. 
Trotter’s waggons, going to Philadelphia 
with fkins and dcllars. This gentleman 
lives at Lexington in Kentucky, and is 
afferted to be the greateft retailer in the 
United States. In May 1804 he fent to 
Philadelphia 34,000 dollars worth of wet 
deer-fkins. He goes thither twice a-year, 
and his cafh-payments are eitimated at 
38,000 dollars annually. He is faid to 
have paid for the carriage of his goods in 
the fpring of 1804 between five and feven 
thouland dollars, and employed thirty- 
eight Pennfylvasia waggons, which will 
carry on an average from 28 to 34 cwt. 
each. Theteam-horfes of Penntylvania 
are extremely good: they have ufually 
five horfes to a waggon. They are of a 
breed between’the Englifh hunter and 
cart-horfe. Two hundied and fifty of 
thefe waggons are {aid to be confiantly on 
the road beiween Philadelphia and Pittf 
burg. They generally are twenty-one 
days on the road, and receive about 5% 
dollars per cwt. It is computed that when 
the contemplated turnpike is finiflied, they 
will not be more than twelve days on the 
road, and carry for 34 dollars the ewt. ; 
befides the advantage which will thus be 
afforded cf a double market for fiour, 
whitkey, hemp, flax, butter, cheefe, &c., 
&c. 
Thofe who know not this country 
would not believe me was I to mention 
the number of emigrants that annuaily 
pafs through Pittfourg ; I “hall therefore 
for the prefent only fay, that it forms a 
wonderful feature in the American cha- 
raéier. lt appears to me, however, that 
all Eurepean writers on this country 
write with a view to perfuade to, or dif- 
fuade from emigration. The faé& ts, the 
baie of our populaticn is now as large as 
we need with. Increafe by foreign emi- 
gration cannot now be felt ; yet witha 
Errors in the Book of Commehn Prayer: 
[J uly iF 
large and liberal policy we welcome every 
alien. And ifto live under a Government 
anxious to do juftice and to preferve 
peace,—to be fubjeét to no other will than 
that of the majority,—-to have the profits 
of his labour ‘ecure, and his right of opi- 
nion fully admitted,—will add to his hap- 
pinefs, here the emigrant may be happy. 
But anation with a population of feven 
millions, which doubles icfelf every twen- 
ty years, can receive but {mall aid from 
emigration, as whoever will take the 
trouble of confidering the number of vef- 
fels requifite to bring one hundred thou- 
fand perfons from Europe will clearly fee. 
It may, however, be a queftion, whether 
it would not be good policy for fo popu- 
lous a nation as England to encourage 
emigration in her fubjeéts. Man increafes 
in proportion to his means of procuring 
maintenance. Every increafe of our po- 
,pulation increafes the demand for your 
manufacteres, and confequently affords 
additional means of maintenance to the 
fubje&ts of Great Britain. Of courfe emi- 
gration from your country to this, inftead 
of diminifhing your population, would 
increafe the number of your labourers, the 
income and wealth of your nation. 
I remain, Sir, your's, &cs 
R. DINMORE. 
Alexandria, Fan. 28, 1806. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ) 
AM juf returned from evening -prayers 
Ji. much more fatisfied in my mind than 
I was when I came home from morning- 
fervice ; not that I have any caufe to find 
fault with the compofition of the prayers, 
the feleétion of the pfalms and leffuns, as 
I conceive nothing could have been done 
with more judgment aad propriety ;—my 
animadverfions are principally directed 
azaintt the former printers to the Univer- 
fityof Oxford. His Majefty, in bis Pro- 
clamation for the obfervance of this faft, 
amcongit other things, calls us together to 
*¢ fend up our prayers and fupplications to 
the Divine Majefty fer obtaining pardon of 
our fins,”’ &c. and furely nothing could be 
more appropriate, more humiliating, or 
more judicioufly chofen fer the purpofe, 
than that penitential-pfalm of David, J 
mean the 51ft, one of thofe appointed for 
the morning-fervice of thisday. The gth 
verfe runs, or fhould run, thus: ‘ Turn 
thy face from my fins, and put out all my 
mildeeds :*” very proper language indeed . 
for a penitent finner to make ule of, to 
deprecate the vengeance of his offended 
Maker ;—but, when I heard the verfe 
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