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I perceive from your letter to Mr. Beck, that a regular mode
of settling is recommended. I presume the land is fertile,
healthy, and well situated for market purposes.

If you should have dwellings erected for about ten families,
I would do all in my power, after having become fully sat-
isfied, to effect a settlement of these ten families. These fam-
ilies, once established, will write to their friends, and the
emigration commences.

I would start a land bureau here and use all my influence,
especially in the county paper, to recommend the cause.
This paper (of which I am the editor) has a large circle of
readers, especially among the country people.

I would have commenced my journey already, or may, had
not my business prevented me; my object was to see Penn-
sylvania. After having read your pamphlet, I thought I
would stay at home, write to you my views, and expect your
answer. In the meantime I have sent a young farmer and
.engineer, Mr. John Wolz, with a letter to your Secretary,
Dr. F. W. Bogen, to Baltimore, requesting him to look at
your lands, if you will kindly assist him in seeing them. He
will leave for Bremen on the 3rd of June. I would now ask
you to send me a map of your lands.

This city has about 13,000 inhabitants, among whom about
7,000 are occupied with the cultivation of fruit and the vine
grape.

In the neighborhood are many villages which, without
being very poor, nevertheless suffer from over-population.
From this district alone annually about 500 persons emigrate
to the United States, but the imminent war may increase their
number, and may induce also other more moneyed classes to
emigrate.

I think it would be well to have your object liberally adver-
tised through the papers, which I have already done in my
paper.

I am willing to continue my exertions in a cause in which I
have for a long time felt a lively interest, as soon as I am in
possession of further information.

Mr. Beck will also do all in his power.

Very respectfully, yours, &c.,

OTTO HAHN.

Mr. Wolz arrived in due season with a letter from Dr.
Hahn stating that the original number had increased to fifteen
families, each with a capital of from $600 to $1,500 (gold)
who were ready to immigrate, if Mr. Wolz's representations
were favorable. Every facility was afforded him of making
a thorough inspection of some of the most available lands.
What his impressions were, may be gleaned from the follow-
ing translation of a letter, the original of which was trans-
mitted to Germany: