Some Information Respecting Americ
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ISBN13: 9780217876087
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: eftabliflimenr, fuch as I -would reccommend to you. The fame remarks will in a great degree apply to the ftate of Delaware, to which alfo there is a farther objection ariiing from the illiberality of the religious teft law, contained in its conftitu- tion; not to mention the prefent prevalence of Negro flavery in that portion of the Continent. The ftate of New York feems increafing more rapidly in every circumftance of profperity, than any other ftate perhaps in the Union, Pennfylva- nia excepted. The city of New York ranks next to Philadelphia as a place of trade, and the back parts of the ftate afford, at no very dear price, immenfe tracts of the richeft land. Neither is the climate in general fo different from that of Great Britain, as to conftitute any formidable objection to Britilh fettlers. It is colder and warmer than your country; but in fomc parts, a little more warmth would in my opinion be no difadvantage: for although the numerous tribes of American apples are to be found here in great perfection, the peach, I believe, does not perfectly ripen at Albany. Beyond comparifon, the mof t fertile part of this ftate is the Genefee country; which, fince the prefent uafortunate war with the Indians, has attracted a great number of the New England emigrants, who a year or two ago were induced chapter{{Section 4induced to travel to the weftern frontier of the Ohio, in fearch of cheaper and better land, than could be found in their own country. Indeed there does not appear to be much difference in the kind or quality of the foil, between the firft rate land of the Genefee and the Kentucky territory; whatever difference there is, may be fairly attributed to the greater wamth of the climate Mi- the Jaft-mentioned part of America, which has its difadvantages in others...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217876087 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217876080 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 162 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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