150 PURCHASING LAN0. 



ants, than in the first instance to purchase 

 land. 



Where, however, the British farmer is pos- 

 sessed of capital sufficient for the purchase, 

 and also the stocking and cultivating, of a 

 farm, he might certainly find his account in 

 making a purchase in the States. From the 

 generally moderate price of land and the op- 

 portunity he would have of reclaiming a fer- 

 tile soil, or by his superior skill, rendering 

 that which is already reclaimed greatly more 

 fruitful, he might assure himself of such a re- 

 turn for capital as I believe is not to be had 

 from agriculture in any other country equally 

 abounding as the States are in all the comforts 

 of life. 



But I need hardly observe, that m making 

 a purchase of a farm, he must take care to re- 

 tain sufficiency of capital for stocking and cul- 

 tivating it, because were he to expend his all 

 in the purchase, he must from obvious causes, 

 go to work here with great and peculiar dis- 

 advantage he might draw from the land a 

 subsistence for his family, but in all probabili- 



