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in New England, I was informed that Liverpool was 

 looked to as the most likely market for this new manufac 

 ture. English farmers can have no objection that such 

 manuring substances as this should be brought within 

 their reach. The South American tallow-boilers are 

 already sending their dried animal-refuse to be sold in 

 our manure-markets ; and it is not improbable that, the 

 trade being once begun, those of Australia and Cincin 

 nati, as well as the fish-steamers of Long Island Sound, 

 may hereafter, profitably to themselves as well as usefully 

 to us, make up for the failure of so many of our sources of 

 guano, and enable us still to farm highly and to struggle 

 more successfully with the difficulties under which our 

 agriculture is at present struggling. On some parts of 

 our coasts, sprats, mackerel, dog-fish, and other species, 

 sometimes appear in vast shoals. If they are known at 

 any locality to return with sufficient regularity, such a 

 manufacture might prove economical also among us. 



Cooper the novelist ascribes to the people of Connec 

 ticut a character which would have set all the American 

 journals in a fury had it escaped from the pen of Mrs 

 Trollope or of Dickens. He says, &quot; it is one of their 

 marked peculiarities to part with nothing without a quid 

 pro quo ; that little services, offerings, and conveniences, 

 for which elsewhere no remuneration is even thought of, 

 are here regularly booked, and payment expected, and 

 perhaps asked for, years after, even by persons in easy 

 circumstances that when a friend pays a visit of a few 

 days he is said to be boarding with his host, as if he were 

 expected to pay his score and that the free and frank 

 habits which prevail among relatives and friends else 

 where are nearly unknown there, every service having 

 its price. &quot;* 



If all this be true, and Cooper ought to know his own 



* Sec COOPER S Lost Sealers, vol. i. cliap. 1. 



