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dry & hot weather have dried and baked the soil so hard, that it could not be worked to advantage.

2d That they could command from two: to two dollars and fifty cents pr day in the Harvest fields, which cannot be called anything but commendable on their part. Aside from a natural desire to take all advantage of their ignorance, there is a disposition manifested to take all the advantage of them in a pecuniary point, and to encourage them in habits of Intemperance which I noticed in Some instances, by inducing them to take a part or the whole proceeds of their labor in Whisky instead of Corn and meat for their families, or provisions for their future use. This does not apply in all respects to the higher class of Citizens but more particularly to the Small

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