2t/4 on the commotions in RofsJJjire. -^''g- ^9* 



avail themselves of the infinite advantages they could de- 

 rive from the great falls of many streams of vyater, for 

 turning machinery. These, again, would have consumed 

 in manufactures, the wool that ought to be, and inevita- 

 bly will be, in time, the chief production of these moun- 

 tains, and would themselves consume the carcases. Thus 

 might the country support ten times the number of in- 

 habitants it has at present, without feeling any superfluity 

 of people. The tenants would be at liberty to stock and 

 and manage their farms, in the most economical manner, 

 without distrefsing any individuals. The proprietors wouM 

 draw a fair and adequate rent for their lands, without be- 

 ing accused of opprefsion. And the state would derive 

 an ample revenue, without distrefsing the inhabitants, 

 from a numerous people, who at present exhaust, instead 

 of augmenting the national treasure ; while they are at the 

 same time opprefsed with the severity of revenue laws, 

 that tend only to alienate their affections from govern- 

 ment, instead of conciliating their good will. 



These pleasing consequences would so plainly resuh 

 from the abrogation of the salt laws alone ; and they are 

 so obvious to every person of sound sense, who is perfect- 

 ly acquainted with the slate of that country, though they ■ 

 will appear to be problematical to all those who have li- 

 ved In a cultivated country, and formed their opinion of 

 things from what they see around them, that I canno 

 help recurring to it again and again, even at the rilk of 

 .being tedious. Well I know the time will come, when 

 -what I now say will be adverted to, though I much 

 doubt It Is not yet arrived. Yet such Incidents as the 

 •present, which were long ago foreseen and mentioned, 

 ought to tend to open the eyes of those who have the 

 welfare of the people, — the prosperity of the country,— 

 and the auq;mentation of its revenue at heart. 



