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ufually enquires who has back-lands to 
fell—he need not look long for a johber— 
he is fhewn lands, and offered eligible 
terms, as they aprear to be, becaufe he is 
to have the land for little, and that fome- 
times upon a long credit; but an aval 
fettler, who fhould have his lands graiis, 
would amply deferve it, as he raifes the 
value of all the proprietors’ lands around 
him: ahd were’ the proprietors to give 
away nine tenths of their land in this 
manner, the fale of the remaining tenth 
would be a capital fpeculation. If the 
emigrant flops here, and views the land 
and the neighbourhood of it, before he 
makes a bargain, he does well. He will 
then know the value of the land, whether 
it is likely to be, in a reafonable time, a 
fetiled part of the country ; and may either 
accept; or be off the bargain: but many 
have accepted the terms firit, and vifited 
the land afterwards ; and, when they have 
found the obftacles I have already men- 
tioned, have, been obliged to keep their 
land, or difpofe of it as well as they could, 
and jook out for another fettlement, at 
a deuble expence of money and time. 
Wherever a man lands, he may be fure to 
meet with perfons whowi:l deal with him, 
whether he has cafh, or goods of any de- 
{cription whatever; and if he has not 
encugh of either or both, they will take 
what he has, and give credit for the reft. 
He need not look a day before he has 
feen plans of hundreds of eligible fetile- 
.,ments; but this neccffary precaution— 
“* See, before you buy’—will, nine times 
out of ten, fave mortification and difap- 
pointment. Another very forcible reafon 
for viewing the land before purchafe is, that 
the emigiant may be enabled to afcertain 
its fertility, and what nature of preduc- 
tions it wil bear, which he may do only 
by a fuperficial view. The Americans 
do not bore the boweis of the earth, and 
chymically analyze the falts, and other 
component parts, to know thefe facts; 
they have, by long experience, found that 
fome trees denote much fertility—others, 
litde—others, mediocre.- Some trees de- 
note the land good for one production; 
others, for another. By a little enquiry 
into this matter, an entire ftranger may 
foon he as well able to know the value of 
a traét of Jand as a native, and not be 
liable to be impofed upon by the flowery 
defcriptions of furveyors, which are even 
2s much on the fide of the feller, as a Lon- 
don auctioneer’s advertifement. 
Next to purchafing land, comes the 
queition of improving it. It will not only 
be peedent for a foreigner to view his 
tand before ne veys, but alfo, after pur- 
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chafine, to inform himfelf of the mode 
of cultivation practifed in the neighbour- 
hood, before he fets about it. It isa 
folly to fwim again&t the tide, when you 
may fooner gain your landing-place by 
going with it. It is equally vain in an: 
individual to oppefe eftablifhed cuitom : 
it will not only create a jealoufy againt 
him, but a fatisfaétion at his ill fuccefs. 
The Englifl fcience of agriculture, how- 
ever excellent for the {pot which gave it 
birth, will not do for the American foil; 
and many, who have arrived there pro- 
feed Englith agvicukurifts, have found 
thamfelves obliged to ‘* turn over a new 
leaf,” or ruined themfelves by a pertina- 
cicus adherence to ‘old habits.”” The 
fooner an emigrant adopts the manners of 
the people among whom he hes chofen to 
take up his final refidence, the fooner 
will they forget his being a ttranger, and 
rejoice at his fuccefs as one of themfelves. 
There is no couniry where an Englifhman 
fhould obferve this condu& more rigidly 
than in America, becaufe the Americans 
are peculiarly-jealous of being thought-to 
have depreciated for their ancient: itock, 
and every comparifon in their disfavour, 
is certain of drawing, if not their hatred, 
at leaft their fufpicion of prejudice in the 
pecfon who makes it. 
(To be concluded in our next.) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
COLIANA. 
Confifting of SELECTIONS of the curious 
MS. bequeathed by the late MR- COLE 
to the BRITISH MUSEUM aud lately 
opened. 
ORIGINAL LETTER from the celebrated. 
NELL GWYN. 
“ Thefe for Madam Fennings, over againft 
the Tub Tavern, in Fermin-fireet, 
Loudon. : 
Windfor, Bur ford-houfe, 
SOMADAM, April 14, 1684, 
RAVE received your letter, and I de- 
fire you would fpeake to my Ladie 
Williams to fend me the gold ftuffe, and 
a note with it, becaufe I muft fign it, then 
fhe fhall have her moncy the next day of 
Mr. Trant. Pray tell ber ladiefhip, that 
I will fend hera note of what quantity of 
things Til have bought, if her ladiethip 
will put herfelfe to the trouble to. buy 
them: when they are bought, I will fign 
a note for her to be payd. Pray, Madam, 
let the man goe on with my fedan; and 
fend Potvin and Mr. Coker down to me, 
for I want them both. The bill is very 
dear to boy! the plate; but neceflity hath 
noe law. I am afraid, Madam, you have 
qh 4 forgett 
