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be if the same number of Poles should cultivate the 

 same land with English skill ; and where demand for 

 English goods is by no means equal to the supply 

 which could be afforded, nor likely to become so. 

 Whereas in a colony planted by Englishmen, civil- 

 ized and well-governed, the highest skill in the 

 application of capital and labour to the growth of 

 corn, might conspire with great cheapness of land, to 

 the raising of cheaper corn than has ever yet been 

 raised ; while so cheap a market for the purchase of 

 corn would not only be as secure as any distant 

 market ever was, but might be extended continually 

 with the progress of colonization. Why such very 

 cheap corn has not been raised in any English colony, 

 is a different question, slightly noticed before ; and 

 the means of raising very cheap corn in a colony, 

 without slavery, will be carefully examined amongst 

 the means of colonization. Here my object has been 

 to show, that for such a country as England, a chief 

 end of colonization is to obtain secure markets for 

 the purchase of cheap corn ; a steady supply of 

 bread, liable to be increased with an increasing 

 demand." ft The trade which the English should 

 conduct for obtaining cheap bread from their colonies 

 might be of two kinds ; direct and indirect. Sup- 

 posing that very cheap corn were raised in Canada, 

 the English might buy such corn with the manufac- 

 tured goods of Leeds, Manchester, and Birmingham ; 

 this would be a direct trade. But it might very well 

 happen, that the Canadians should be able to raise, 

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