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coupling the reduction of our national debt 

 with a branch of industry so important as that 

 of colonisation to Britain at present ; but there 

 are none which ought not to be willingly 

 sacrificed by every patriotic subject of the 

 realm : while on the other hand its connection 

 with it is qualified to enlist national enter- 

 prise in a manner which will do far more than 

 counterbalance all the objections which can be 

 brought forward, so that the gain to the 

 mother country will be twofold to the colony. 



In concluding this essay we have to observe, 

 that although it has been our endeavour as 

 much as possible to have recourse to facts in 

 support of what has been said or advanced, 

 yet we have been unable to do so in such a 

 manner as the different branches of the subject 

 necessarily require. It will readily be per- 

 ceived that in many cases we have confined 

 ourselves almost exclusively to a few general- 

 ising remarks on agitated questions ; and have 

 left unnoticed what is of far more importance 

 to farmers' sons the body of facts. 



Any attempt to have introduced these 

 would have involved us in details, the treatment 

 of which, although perhaps the most familiar 

 part of the subject to a practical man, is yet 



