United States - Immigrant quides, etc. ? Economice history - U, S., 1783-1819, 3. Prices U.S., 11795. 1 PREFACE. On my return from America, I found myself prefied ON by fo many enquiries refpecting the state of Society, the means of living, and the inducements to fettle upon that continent, that I determined to reply in print to fuch questions as were moft frequently put to me, and which feemed to be of the moft general importance. Hence the prefent publication; which I should not have ventured upon, if I were not fully fatisfied, that the information it contains (fmall as it is) would be very acceptable to a numerous clafs of readers in this country. I quitted England in August 1793, and embarked at New-York, for Europe, in February 1794.. I left this kingdom exprefsly to determine whether America, and what part of it, was eligible for a perfon, like myself, with a small fortune, and a large family, to fettle in. During my refidence in Philadelphia, the Congress fat, and I had therefore the means of acquiring fatisfactory information respecting every part of the continent which I had not a perfonal opportunity of yifiting. I had no other employment, while in America, than to make obfervations and enquiries to this purpose; I therefore made this my business, and having compleatly fatisfied my own mind upon this subject, I left part my family there, and have returned to this country (probably for the last time) to take away the reft. of I mention this, that the reader may be truly apprized. of the degree of authority due to the remarks with which I prefent him. Such of them as are the refult of my own obfervation, I think may be safely relied on: ́so, indeed, in my opinion, may those which I have venWOR 20JUN 34 tured |