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with manufactured goods. In other words the 

 demand of the Canadians for English goods might be 

 much less than the demand of the English for Cana- 

 dian corn. But the Canadians would require many 

 things besides English goods, which are not produci- 

 ble in Canada ; they would require tea and silver for 

 instance. The English, then, might first buy tea and 

 silver from the Chinese with manufactured goods, and 

 then buy corn of the Canadians with tea and silver. 

 But the demand, again, of the Chinese for English 

 goods might not be sufficient to supply in this way 

 the demand of the English for Canadian corn. For 

 one thing, however, the demand of the Chinese is 

 very urgent and would be without limit, for food in 

 every shape, for the means of life. Here, then, is 

 the ground-work of the most extensive commerce that 

 ever existed in the world. Supposing that cheap 

 food were raised in the English Colonies of Austra- 

 lia, which, though far from England, are near to 

 China, the English might buy such food with manu- 

 factured goods ; with that food buy tea and silver of 

 the Chinese ; and with that tea and silver buy cheap 

 corn of the Canadians. In this case combination of 

 capital and labour for division of employment 

 amongst four different nations, would be of the 

 greatest service to all of them ; to the Chinese, the 

 Australian Colonists, the Canadian Colonists, and 

 the English. A great number of cases like this might 

 be reasonably supposed. From this case, which, 

 though supposed, is very likely to occur, it will be 

 seen that a colony, at the antipodes of the Mother 





