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Show A C C 0 M M 0 D 1 T 10 N 1 N T AV P. R N S. refpcCl: than the farmer in Pcnn(vlvaniJ, or in any other of th miJdl il:ates, who owns two hundred acres of Ltnd, his hon[e will be found better furnifhed, and his table more pkntifully covcn.:d. Tlnt the: Ltrmers do not live bctt r in ./\me ·ic,, 1 Iurclly J:::now whet! ·r to afcribc to their love of 1 1aking money, or to their real incliit:.:rcnc~ about better £tre.: ; p rhaps it may be owing, in [( me meafnn.:, to both; ccrt in jt is, however, that their mode of living is mofl- wretched. The taverns throughont this part of the count ry arc 1-cpt by htrmcr.;. and they arc all very indi fFerent. If the travel! r can procure a few eggs with a little bacon he onght to r l1: fati fico; it is tv.·t:nty to one that a bit of frcG1 meat is to l t: hacl, or any 1:1lted meat except pork. Vegetables iccm alfo to be very fcarcc, and when you dog ·t any, they generally con fill of turnips, or turnip tops boiled by way of greens. The bread i heavy and four, though they have as fin flollr as any in th~ wor]J; this i owing to their method of making of it; they raife it with what they a1ljots; hops and water boiled together. No dependance is to be pb ed upon getting ::t man at theft: tavern to rub dow11 your horic, or even to give him his food, frequently therefore you will have to do very thing of the kind for yourfelf .if you do not trav l with a fcrnnt; and indeed, even where men :1rc I cpt for the purpofi~ of attendj,, g to travellers, which at fomc of the taverns is the c,1fc, they arc fo fullen and difobliging that yoLt feel in lined to do every thing with your own hands rather than be in kbtcd to them for th eir aili!bnce : they alwnys appear doubtful whether they DlOnld do any thing for yon or not, and to be reafoning within thcmfdvcs, whether it is nor too ... rcat a departure from the rules of cqnality to talc the horfc of another man, and wh ther it woulrl not be a p1cafing fight to ii c a gentleman {lrip If his coat, and go t work for himfclf; nor will money make them alter their conduct; civility, as l before f;1id, is not to be pnrchafcd at any c 'pence in Ameri a; n "Vt:rthdcfs the people will po I et your mo:1ey with the utmofi rca iinefs, t wugh without than! ing you for it. Of all bc::ings on the ea ·th, Americans arc the mofl: intcrdh:d and covetous. It is fcarcely pofiiblc to rro one mile on this road without meeting numbers of waggon · paf1inrr and rcpaaing between the ba k parts of K thL: |