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value of land and advance the character of agri- 

 culture in America. 



Besides, an important benefit arising from 

 the granting of leases is that farms are for the 

 greater part tenanted by men reared from in" 

 fancy to agriculture who study it as a pro- 

 fession, and pursue it with the skill and energy 

 necessary to success. Britain thus possesses 

 a numerous race who for agricultural know- 

 ledge, patriotic feeling, and moral conduct, are 

 nowhere surpassed who are the pride and 

 glory and decidedly the best bulwarks of their 

 country. 



Under this system of leasing British farmers 

 would flock to the States, and by the applica- 

 tion of their skill and capital, not only enrich 

 themselves, but set an example that would 

 disseminate itself and eventually prove valua- 

 ble to the country. And I do not hesitate to 

 give it as my decided opinion, that if the land- 

 ed proprietors of the States could be induced 

 *o adopt that system, farmers emigrating from 

 Britain, would do better to become their ten- 



