IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



might now be sold very well at seveii shillings for 

 the fifty-six pounds. There is no occasion to wait 

 till our own crops come : there is plenty to be 

 had from America; and plenty from Canada, 

 too^ without any duty that can ever be higher 

 than half a crown a quarter. So that we may 

 begin, in a few months' time, to live pretty nearly 

 as well, as to the matter of bread, as the Ame- 

 ricans themselves ; except that, the Jitst and equi- 

 table owners of the land and fillers of the seats, 

 will make us pay a tax upon our mushy as thev 

 do now a tax upon our bread. It is in this 

 state in particular, that the corn is so great a 

 blessing as food for man : it is thus used in 

 every house in the country : some have not the 

 convenience of making it into bread ; some may 

 not use it in porridge ; homany and samp are in 

 use in some parts of the country and not in 

 others ; but mush is used in every house, whether 

 the owner be the richest or the poorest man in 

 the country. It is eaten at the best tables, 

 and that, almost every day : some like it hot, 

 some cold, some with milk, some to slice it 

 down, and eat it with meat ; some like it best 

 made with water, others with milk ; but all like 

 it in one way or another ; and my belief is that 

 the corn, even used in this one single manner, 

 does more, as food for man, than all the wheat 

 that is groivn in the country, though the flour 

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