150 PURCHASING LAND. 



ants, than in the first instance to purchase 

 land. 



Where, however, the British farmer is pos 

 sessed of capital sufficient for the purchase, 

 and also the stocking and cultivating, of a 

 farm, he might certainly find his account in 

 making a purchase in the States. From the 

 generally moderate price of land and the op- 

 portunity he would have of reclaiming a fer 

 tile soil, or by his superior skill, rendering 

 that which is already reclaimed greatly more 

 fruitful, he might assure himself of such a re 

 turn for capital as I believe is not to be had 

 from agriculture in any other country equally 

 abounding as the States are in all the comforts- 

 of life. 



But I need hardly observe, that in making 

 a purchase of a farm, he must take care to re 

 tain sufficiency of capital for stocking and cul 

 tivating it, because were he to expend his all 

 in the purchase, he must from obvious causes, 

 go to work here with great and peculiar dis 

 advantage he might draw from the land a 

 subsistence for his family, but in all probabili- 



