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The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart (1831)
The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair Bart - 1831 Author:John Sinclair 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: most essentially contributed), 1 trust will prove an important era in the history of that first of arts. It is only necessary to add, that, by various acc... more »idents, neither the original copy, nor the duplicate of the subjoined letter reached me; but fortunately a triplicate was sent, which safely arrived, and from which the following is printed. General Washington? s Account of the several States of America. Philadelphia, I Ith December 1796. The near view which you have of the Revolution in France, and of the political state of things in Europe, especially those of Great Britain, has enabled you to form a judgment with so much more accuracy than I could do, of the probable result of the perturbated state of the countries which compose that quarter of the globe, and of the principal actors on that theatre, that it would be presumption in me, at the distance of 3000 miles, to give an opinion relatively to either men or measures, and therefore I will proceed to the information required in your private letter of the llth of September, which I will give you from the best knowledge I possess, and with the candour you have a right to expect from me. The United States, as you well know, are very extensive, more than 1500 miles between the north-eastern and southwestern extremities, -- all parts of which, from the seaboard to the Apalachian Mountains, (which divide the eastern from the western waters), are entirely settled, though not so compactly as they are susceptible of, and settlements are progressing rapidly beyond them. Within so great a space, you are not to be told, that there are great variety of climates; and you will readily suppose too, that there are all sorts of land, differently improved, and of various prices, according to the quality of the soil, -- it...« less