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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 bo 

 ruined. 



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 mangoe and leeche tree, &c., &c., is not derived from 

 others, 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 

 couragement of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, your minister 

 at St. James.* Prior to my correspondence with Mr. Law 

 rence, I had some communication with the consul at Dublin; 

 both 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. 



