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I suppose are scarcely to be computed, and 

 what no other nation enjoys. Then the 

 landed property, from its climate and soil, 

 is superior to what any other nation or 

 power can boast of. Again, the immense 

 value of the horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, &c. 

 that are fed upon the land, is beyond all 

 calculation. I beg to mention to you, Mr. 

 Watson, one circumstance, of the value of 

 the sheep and cattle grazing on one hundred 

 and six acres of land in Gidney marshes in 

 the months of May and June, 1797, which 

 cost Mr.-, John Everson of Holbeach 

 three thousand one hundred and fifty 

 nine pounds fifteen shillings and nine 

 pence, without any horses. The account 

 was taken from his books by myself, and 

 these sheep and cattle were all intended for 

 the knife during the year. Now how many 

 miles and acres of land will it take in any 

 inhabited part of America to raise the 

 like sum ? I am clear that ten miles 

 square would not do it, in any part of 

 America I have been in ; nor would twenty 



