DANGERS OF EMIGRATION TO AMERICA

EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES Extract of a letter from a young man a candlemaker who left Glasgow last Spring with a view ofsettling in Ameri ca PittseurGH AvuGust 29 1818 Ihave you gee got to the westernside of the Allegany mountains after a journey of about 400 miles from. New York to this place a journey of difficulties and fatigues that you have no idea of through woods and wilderness es and clay holes over rocks and stones up the face of mountains and down the other side mountaing as steep as the side of a house Youknow that before. I left home I was not buoyed up like some others with respect to Ame ricathat it was every thing All such on coming here will find themselves miserably deceived Moderate as my views were Ifind that t have been greatly imposed upon by authors and letter writers who represent this as the jand flowing with milk and honey. In place of flowing with milk and honey it flows more copiously with the sweat of the wayworn traveller and the laboriously em ployed under the suffocating heat of a scorching sun in lat 40When.

I landed at New York.