barely existing in some parts of Scotland, will here in six years, cause an annual exportation of 10,000 bushels of wheat:  100 bushels being but a common quantity for an industrious family to sell, if they cultivate good land.  It is here then that the idle may be employed, the useless become useful, and the poor become rich; but by riches I do not mean gold and silver, we have but little of those metals; I mean a better sort of wealth, cleared lands, cattle, good houses, good clothes, and an increase of people to enjoy them.

There is no wonder that this country has so many charms, and presents to Europeans so many temptations to remain in it.  A traveller in Europe becomes a stranger as soon as he quits his own kingdom; but it is otherwise here.  We know, properly speaking, no strangers; this is every person’s country; the variety of our soils, situations, climates, governments, and produce, hath something which must please everybody.  No sooner does an European arrive, no matter of what condition, than his eyes are opened upon the fair prospect; he hears his language spoke, he retraces many of his own country manners, he perpetually hears the names of families and towns with which he is acquainted; he sees happiness and prosperity in all places disseminated; he meets with hospitality, kindness, and plenty everywhere; he beholds hardly any poor, he seldom hears of punishments and executions; and he wonders at the elegance of our towns, those miracles of industry and freedom.  He cannot admire enough our rural districts, our convenient roads, good taverns, and our many accommodations; he involuntarily loves a country where everything is so lovely.  When in England, he was a mere Englishman; here he stands on a larger portion of the globe, not less than its fourth part, and may see the productions of the north, in iron and naval stores; the provisions of Ireland, the grain of Egypt, the indigo, the rice of China.  He does not find, as in Europe, a crowded society, where every place is over-stocked; he does not feel that perpetual collision of parties, that difficulty of beginning, that contention which oversets so many.  There is room for everybody in America; has he any particular talent, or industry? he exerts it in order to procure a livelihood, and it succeeds.  Is he a merchant? the avenues of trade are infinite; is he eminent in any respect? he will be employed and respected.  Does he love a country life? pleasant farms present themselves; he may purchase what he wants, and thereby become an American farmer.  Is he a labourer, sober and industrious? he need not go many miles, nor receive many informations before he will be hired, well fed at the table of his employer, and paid four or five times more than he can get in Europe.  Does he want uncultivated lands? thousands of acres present themselves, which he may purchase cheap.  Whatever be his talents or inclinations, if they are moderate, he may satisfy them.  I do not mean that every one who comes will grow rich in a little