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ty»two yean with General Ridgcly and his 

 uncif, iuiving been sent over aconvi *. 

 This man used to say, ** that if General 

 RiJgcIy were to do to all his land what I 

 was doing to mine, and had wages to pay 

 every Saturday ; ^ , as I had. it would 

 ruin hiin ia two yt : .'* The man was 

 right: llic Ainerican land will not pav for 

 such m.' cut. 1 will venture to .i^ iii 



that I should have had in Fngland, on very 

 moiloratc land, with twcntv-fivc hi of 

 such dung per acre, five hundred bushels of 

 J >es per ai Now, if the produce of 



five hundred bushels were sold at three shil- 

 Tings and six pence per h I, the sum 

 arising would be three hundred and nincty- 

 ihrcc pounds fi: .^s, i: d (»1 



eighty-one pounds sixteen shillings and six 

 pence: tli produce would pay 



the farmer, even ai American prices of la- 

 bour. This s!r-ws that it is not so much 

 the price of labour, as the scanty produce of 

 the ?s(/il, th.1t prevents the American farmer 

 from i!! 1 ' lull J ih.it i!.c lur- 



