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practical to relieve the two afore mentioned articles of 

 commerce from depression. To give some opening for 

 the employment of at least a portion of the cultivators ; 

 for, if all go on cultivating cotton or rice, all must be 

 rained. 



LIST OF ARTICLES PROPOSED FOR INTRODUCTION INTO 

 AMERICA. 



I beg to lay before the American community the fol- 

 lowing list of articles for introduction into the country ; 

 and, before proceeding to do so, it may be right to say, 

 that, with the subject I am about to enter on in the fol- 

 lowing pages, I am perfectly conversant, from a long ex- 

 perience of fourteen years ; that my knowledge of the tea 

 plant, Indigo plant, and these manufactures, the date, 

 the mangoc uud lecchc tree, &c., &c., is not derived from 

 uth'-rs, or are the following pages a compilation from 

 magazines, &c. I have been five years cultivating and 

 manufacturing indigo, saltpeter, c., &c., and nearly 

 six in the cultivation and manufacture of tea, &c. ; and 

 ten years in the field, at one time or the other, in- 

 terested in every department of agriculture, has given me 

 an acquaintance with the subjects that I may say, with- 

 out fear of contradiction, no other person has had. My 

 visit to America was in consequence of the advice and en- 

 j'-ment of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, your minister 

 .lames.* Prior to my correspondence with Mr. Lav, - 

 vncc, 1 had some communication with the consul at Dublin; 

 l/oth gentlemen laid the communications before the "Wash 

 ington Executive Government, and when Mr. Lawrence re- 

 ceived a reply, he advised me to come over here personally. 



* See Correspondence in Patent Office Report of 1851. 



