Letters from Illinois / By Morris Birkbeck.

  • Morris Birkbeck
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters from Illinois / By Morris Birkbeck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER III. SIR, Nov. 29, 1817. Ir would give me much pleasure to af- ford you satisfactory information on the several particulars you mention, but I am, like yourself, a stranger in this country, and can therefore only communicate to you my opinions i answer to your inquiries. — | | To the first, as to the most eligible part of the United States for obtaining improved farms, or un- cultivated lands for Englishmen, &c. I reply, that with a view to the settlement of the number of fa- milies you mention, it will be vain to look for im- proved farms in any part that I have seen or heard of. Probably a single family might be suited in almost any large district, as the changes which are continually occurring in human affairs, will occa- sionally throw eligible farms into the market © every where. But you can have no choice of cul- tivated lands, as those'you would prefer are the least likely to be disposed of; and it is altogether unlikely you should meet with a body of such lands, for the accommodation of thirty or forty fa- milies ; considering too, that, by travelling a few days’ journey farther west, you may have a choice of - land of equal value at one-tenth of the price, where
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