A Year's Residence in the United States of America : Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil... of the Expenses of Housekeeping... of the Manners and Customs of the People; and, of the Institutions of the Country...

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Here reissued in its 1819 second edition, this 1818 book by the political reformer William Cobbett (1763–1835) describes a year he spent farming on Long Island after fleeing England. Analysing the climate, soil, crops and economics, Cobbett disputes claims that the mid-West is an ideal destination for British emigrants.