GENERAL CONDITION OF AGRICULTURE. 18 



one s.xth part of their PoP^^aU^^^^^^^^^^^ 



the soil, while beggars ^n^ W^^^ 7ast dominions, mniions of 



public expence, swarm through their ^asi unimproved. 



acres of their valuable lands J^y ^^JJ^ enLge their terri- 



This disposition in ^he Ame-can pej^^ ^^^^^.^^ ^.^^^ 



tory, rather than i^pvove m a proper m f^.^^^, ^^^ 



alrLdy possess appears toje^^^^^^^^ 



ancestors, the English. -^ ^^ r>ri f ^^ore impor- 



to estimate «^.-^^;f^^f ^^^^ 



tance than agriculture. ^^.^''^^ ''^territories, than im.provmg 



been "more desirous «^ g^^7fX^Slions Were expended" 



what they already P^^^^^^^/l^^.^^^^^^^ colonies, when a 



by them, "in defendmg and ^PfT^^'^f ^'^^^^^^^^ every part of 



.Lll part of that "loney would have^^^^^^^^^ 



their island like a garden." J^^^^^f^^P^^^^ of five miles ex- 



Americans, that'^HansTow^^^^^^^ a mere deser^^^ ,,,,|,, tion 

 lent, covered with black furze, ^^ aimo . and there 



ana of ^^^^^l^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and the ab- 



grazmg upon it ^^^^/^^i^ ^^^^^n for a part of an American wiiu. 

 sence of trees, iV"^'^,,--thin ten miles of the Capital.* Thie 

 Yet the whole of It is ^^ f^'^J^'^^.e X^^^as so conspicuously 

 disposition in the American P^^^^P^^' ^JS^^^^^ of our repub- 

 chlracterized ^hem ever since the es^^^^^^^^^ , ^J^^, 



lie, is an error, and ought o ^e ^^^^^^^^^^ ,„! business, and 

 should be mduced ^^ "^f ^^^|[^?[^^^^^^ 



to study it as -^ f ^«\^f ' f^^^.^^eom or t^^^ blades of grass 

 "Whoever could make ^^^^^^^^^^''X one grew before, would 

 grow upon a spot of ground ^^ere on^ one gre ,^.^^ ^^^ 



is the principal d"'y °f f''^^^|~^^ our national rights, 



enue, as will bestpromote tne enjuy renublic ; but the 



and those of individuals who consti ute ^^«;7"^i,,„e^, de- 

 amount of the public '.even"«|^^JJ«^7jVe JUm of individu- 

 pends more on the pnvate efforts and the m ^^^_ 



W especially on 'hose of the farmer han^on P^ ^^^^^^ ^^ 

 duct of any ^'1™?°'^"'^''°" J, f„ Reproductive powers of the 

 solid and lasting ''"f ''^'"^tiiable rSrces of the country, 

 soil, may increase the most .™'"°,"ybr1^ad and empl^ 

 while at the same time h« *■'" •j'^^X thrmise ies of pau- 

 the unfortunate poor, and ^^^™ *em from the m ^^ ^^^^ p^^^ 



» See Slliiman's Travels, v. 1. p. 167. 



