The Bostonians are very keen traders, and they say there are sharp differences in character between them and the people of our southern provinces, but as I come from a middle province, New York, I am, in a sense, neutral.

The New Englanders have a great stake in the present war.

Their country has been ravaged for more than a century by French and Indians from Canada, and this province of Massachusetts is sending to it nearly every man, and nearly every dollar it has." "We know of their valor and tenacity in England," said Captain Whyte, "but we know also that they're men of their own minds." "Why shouldn't they be?
That's why they're English." "Since you put it that way, you're right.

But here we are." The town, about the size of New York, looked like a great city to Robert.

He had come from a land that contained only one inhabitant, himself, and it was hard for him now to realize there were so many people in the world.