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Excerpt from The Christian Spectator: Being a Journey From England to Ohio, Two Years in That State, Travels in America, &C The following pages were begun at sea by a person from England, and perpetuated through his journey up into the state of Ohio. They have indeed been corrected, and enlarged by some additional matter and travels since that period, but which additions were added probably on travel, and at a distance from home. As to the extent of the work, it has recently been intended by the writer to bear the following title, namely, "The Christian Spectator: including a journey from England to Ohio, two years in that State, Travels, &c." But for want of means to publish it in too large a form at present, he has come to the conclusion to publish only a part of it till a future period. And at a time when thousands were leaving their native countries in Europe to find an habitation and the comforts of life in a foreign land - when the tide of emigration drew many after them, though not under the same obligations to remove as their acquaintance, who had gone before them - and when some more especially have given up a successful line of business to follow their friends or acquaintance to a distant country, it is not surprising if a few individuals under such circumstanstances, should find themselves disappointed, and meet with some difficulties abroad, equal to those they had to encounter at home. This, however, is seldom the case among laborers and industrious men. It generally happens among such people as give up a good inheritance at home, at the hazard of finding a better one abroad. No; it seldom happens that working men are injured by coming to America; on the contrary there are many who have had, and still have, cause for thankfulness that there was such a country to repair to, and that there are but few among the industrious and healthy, and people of a tolerable genius, who cannot find something to do, and some way to live, though they could not live in Europe. Hence it is not the writer's intention to speak lightly of America, inasmuch as in many instances it has been the industrious man's home, and he has the satisfaction to say, that he has found many very humane and kind people in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.