For the school, about 60

Ten gentlemen, 500 acres each 5,000

Ten farmers, 100 acres each 1,000

Forty farmers, 78 acres each, 3,120

For the village, sixty lots of 12 acres each. .. 720

10,000 acres.

Men of property anxious to secure to their families estates in America^ will experience great satisfaction in joining their countrymen, perhaps their former friends and neighbours, in such a colony. They can, as opportunity offers, improve their respective purchases,

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according to their fancy ; and they will not only enjoy advantages from their own industry, but finally be enriched by the industry of their neighbours. Those who have been born to labour for their livelihood, with a few years continuance of the same industry as was necessary for their existence in Europe, will find themselves rich and independant ; and at their death, instead of leaving their families, as is generally the case in Europe, the same hard and scanty means of existence, they will leave them real property, and the means, by industry, of living in ease and plenty.

At the most early period of the settlement of this country, establishments were formed at much difficulty and at great expense; and even money could not obviate the difficulties emigrants had to encounter. During the two first years my companions and myself scarcely ever slept in a bed, and could seldom command the common necessaries of life. But the exploring of the navigations, removing the incidental obstructions, opening roads, and building mills, not only procured an easy supply of necessaries, but, by inducing a rapid settlement, ensured the cultivation of the country. What would four years ago have been impracticable, is now easy ; and all the new settlers are supplied with every necessary at moderate price. Mechanics of every description are to be found throughout the country, and no country was ever so well supplied with mills.