L] AND SORTS OF CORN. 



"bability the growing of Indian Corn in England 

 might have been deferred for another century or 

 two. The moment 1 saw this plat of corn ripen- 

 ing, planted as it was on the 9th June, I declared 

 that 1 would have a field of Indian Corn ; and, not 

 being able to discover any chance of getting a 

 field near London, by any other means than by 

 the renting of this farm, I rented it, though, as 

 to any other purpose to which it might be put, I 

 was by no means anxious. 



33. This is the true history of the introduction 

 of Indian Corn into England, where it will now 

 be cultivated as long as the island will be habita- 

 ble, which certainly would not have been for any 

 great length of time, if the late Kent Meeting 

 had suffered us to be handed quietly over to the 

 Sheas and the Shiels, and those other illustri- 

 ous orators, on the other side of the water, who 

 bewitch the ears and the hearts of mankind by 

 speeches, consisting of words that are never heard, 

 and that, before they are spoken, start into print, 

 in the shape of full capitals, small capitals, ro- 

 man letter, and italic, divided and subdivided by 

 commas, semi-colons, colons, and periods ; and 

 decorated with " hear, hear, hear, and thunders 

 of applause ; " and with marks of admiration in 

 single, in duplicate, and triplicate, astounding 

 the sight and subduing the hearts of the Kentish 

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