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142 on manufactures and agriculture. Decy 5+ 
- men, inclined to the one or to the other by their habits, 
or by superficial views of complex society, have per 
plexed themselves and the public with theories that 
have no real foundation in the omnes principles of 
political economy. 
Improvements i in agriculture naturally precede im- 
provements in manufactures; and if the seat of 
thriving manufactures is generally to be found 
where the former is not eminent, it will be found, 
upon due consideration, to préceed rather from the 
abundance of fuel, stone, and lime, and other accomo- 
dations for easy settlement of the people, than that 
the prevalence of manufactures has any tendency 
to draw off capitals, injuriously, from agriculture, or 
to raise the price of country labour, to the general 
detriment of the farmer. 
If the just and luminous principles of the judici- — 
ous efsayist on the Wealth of Nations fhall be finally 
adopted, and the corn trade have a free course, un- 
fettered by laws and regulations, the farmer must 
find his account in the multiplication of the people, 
by the establifhment of new branches of manufac- 
tures; for corns of all kinds are bulky commodities, 
end must always be raised and sold to the-best ad- 
“vantage by the grower athome. And by the bounty 
‘hat is thus offered for increasing the productive 
‘qualities of the soil, the almost infinite improvabi< 
lity of the art of agriculture will give scope to in- 
‘vention in that first of arts, beyond the reach of our 
present conceptions} ; 
The worthy Editor of this miscellany has se¢. 
forth in some of his useful papers the wonderful ef- | 
