' INTRODUCTION, XXVIL 
hands, and operates as a bounty on marriage, The confe- 
quent increafe of numbers re-operates as a call for induftry, 
and the produce of labour. Thus they might be mutually 
_confidered, toa certain degree, as caufe and effec. And 
independent of exterior influences, the flu@tuation would be 
the lefs, while the increafe might be even and progrefiive, 
till it could proceed no farther, without recourfe to emigra- 
tion. The numerous thoufands, however, of uncultivated 
acres in this country, and the refources of improved culti- 
vation of land, may well convince, us that the period of 
neceflary emigration, from redundance of population, is not 
yet nearly arrived. In connection with our prefent exten- 
five foreign commerce, foreign fettlements, and foreign wars, 
which take out of the country fo many thoufands of people 
annually, the uncertainty of the continuance of fuch foreign 
drainage, the liability to numerous returns of natives, and the 
cafualties attending a foreign fupply of provifions, all taken 
together, feem to call on the prefent period for new and 
powerful exertions in cultivation, . 
To provide for the greateft-{cale of numbers, and of con- 
fequent want of fuftenance, is an object of necefflary exertion; 
and under that Supreme Providence which governs all 
things, thofe exertions may become powerful means of na- 
tional ftrength and profperity,* 
To proceed in our confiderations on the improvement of 
cattle.—T he {pecies of animals, which is underftood by the 
term neat cattle, is confefledly a noble and graceful ornament 
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* Inthe moft important point of view in which thefe fubjects 
can be confidered, i.e. the moral, the ferious obferver of improving 
art and nature may indulge a hope, that if it bea Zood for a f{maller 
number of inhabitants to live and be thankful for the means ofcom- 
fortable fuftenance, the combined objeét may in itfelf be amiable and 
worthy, in proportion to the extent to which it may be carried, 
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