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SECTION XXXIII. 



Remarks on the Use, and Exportation of Wheat 

 Flour from America. National Disposition 

 of the Americans. Proof that speculating on 

 Landed Property in America in not advan- 

 tageous. 



THE reader of this work will be at a 

 loss to conceive where all the wheat, rye, 

 flour, and Indian corn, comes from. 

 The cause is not the great produce on 

 each acre, but the extent of country* 

 I suppose there must be one thousand' 

 square miles of cultivated, or inhabited, 

 land. It is necessary to observe, in Ame- 

 rica there are no manufactories, a very 

 small number of men employed in military 

 affairs, an infant navy, and few or no per- 

 sons in clerical orders. The population of 

 that country is mostly employed in agricul- 

 ture ; tradesmen are so few as hardly to 

 merit notice. The chief drink used by the 

 mass of the people is water. 



