512 ITS USE TO BOTH COUNTRIES. 



increase the produce of the country. To the United 

 States the discovery will, in the mean time, afford a new 

 article of export, new employment to a part of its people, 

 and, I hope, a reasonable profit for their exertions to my 

 friends who have sought out the several localities. As 

 soon as American farmers shall have satisfied themselves 

 that, when prepared by means of sulphuric acid, it is 

 really useful to their crops, the mineral will render the 

 same services to their agriculture also as to ours. It 

 may revive the wheat-growing powers of New England, 

 and enable western New York to compete more pro 

 fitably in the wheat-market with the new States of the 

 north-west. 



I have little more to add to these &quot; NOTES.&quot; I sailed 

 from Boston by the regular Cunard steamer, on the 3d 

 of April. We encountered cold, snowy, and obscure 

 weather on our way to Halifax. Thence we had what 

 was pronounced a rough passage were entangled among 

 ice-drift and icebergs for a few hours about the south 

 tail of the Bank, where I saw quite as many of these 

 visitors as I ever care to meet ; but finally reached 

 Liverpool, after a run of thirteen days. The evening of 

 the same day which brought us into Liverpool saw me 

 safe at home in Durham, being the very evening I had 

 fixed for my arrival four weeks before, in my letters 

 from Boston. Such certainty of calculation do we now 

 owe, even in the uncertain weather of spring, to the 

 conjoined triumphs of mechanism and steam ! 



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