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that in ten years one-fourth more corn would be pro- 

 duced, befides an improvement of flock and all other*- 

 produce of land, and that a million more people 

 would be fupported, of whom,- half the number 

 would be employed in agriculture, planting, draining, 

 inclofing. Sec Thefe fentiments have long prevailed 

 in my mind, from many years experience, and ob- 

 fervation. 



My excellent friend, Mr. Jonas Han way, (one 

 of the moll hu .lane and patriotick men I ever knew) 

 near forty years ago, publifhed a plan for regiflering 

 fearaen and manning the -navy without prefling; and 

 good Dean Tucker, when the Americans refilled 

 the laws of this country, and began to rebel, wifely 

 wrote, " Let them go,— ^give them up, — colonize at 

 " home :" if this advice had been taken, the lad and 

 the prefent war might have been avoided, and we 

 fliould have been one hundred and twenty milliui^s lefs 

 in debt, and probably have had five hundred thoufand 

 men more in the Ifland; and with the above-men- 

 tioned falutary laws, our improvements would have 

 been ineflimable. But good advice avails nothing, 

 whilfl fo much profligacy and difTipation prevail ; 

 corruption is fo general, that the worft confequences 

 are to be dreaded. The Board of Agriculture is an 

 excellent inflitution, and may do much good, if go- 

 vernment will admit improvements to take place j if 



not, 



