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SOME INFORMATION

RESPECTING

A M E R I C A,

COLLECTED BY

ТНОМAS COOPER,

LATE OF MANCHESTER.

THE SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

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PREFACE.

N my return from America, I found myself prefied

O by fo many enquiries respecting the state of Socied

ty, the means of living, and the inducements to settle upon that continent, that I determined to reply in print to such questions as were most frequently put to me, and which seemed to be of the most general importance. Hence the present publication; which I should not have ventured upon, if I were not fully fatisfied, that the information it contains (small as it is) would be very acceptable to a numerous class 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 expressly 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 settle 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 personal opportunity of vifiting, I had no other employment, while in America, than to make observations and enquiries to this purpose; I therefore made this my business, and having compleatly fatisfied my own mind upon this subject, I left part of my family there, and have returned to this country (probably for the last time) to take away the rest.

I mention this, that the reader may be truly apprized of the degree of authority due to the remarks with which I present him. Such of them as are the result of my own observation, I think may be safely relied on: so, indeed, in my opinion, may those which I have ventured

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