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ty-two years with General Ridgely and his 

 uncle, having been sent over a convict. 

 This man used to say, " that if General 

 Ridgely were to do to all his land what I 

 was doing to mine, and had wages to pay 

 every Saturday night, as I had, it would 

 ruin him in two years." The man was 

 right: the American land will not pay for 

 such management. I will venture to assert 

 that I should have had in England, on very 

 moderate land, with twenty-five loads of 

 such dung per acre, five hundred bushels of 

 potatoes per acre. Now, if the produce of 

 five hundred bushels were sold at three shil- 

 lings and six pence per bushel, the sum 

 arising would be three hundred and ninety- 

 three pounds fifteen shillings, instead of 

 eighty-one pounds sixteen shillings and six 

 pence: therefore the produce would pay 

 the farmer, even at American prices of la- 

 bour. This shews that it is not so much 

 the price of labour, as the scanty produce of 

 the soil, that prevents the American farmer 

 from growing rich. The land that the tur- 



