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would be already too rich, and that your main 

 difficulty would be, not to cart on manure, but 

 to cart off the produce! 



1005. After this, it appears unnecessary for me 

 to notice any other part of this Transalleganian 

 romance, which I might leave to the admira 

 tion of the Edinburgh Reviewers, whose know 

 ledge of these matters is quite equal to what 

 they have discovered as to the Funding System 

 and Paper Money. But when I think of the 

 flocks of poor English Farmers, who are tramp 

 ing away towards an imaginary, across a real 

 land of milk and honey, I cannot lay down the 

 pen, till 1 have noticed an item or two of the 

 produce. 



1006. The farmer is to have 100 acres of 

 Indian corn, the first year. The minds of you 

 gentlemen who cross the Allegany seem to ex 

 pand, as it were, to correspond with the extent 

 of the horijzon that opens to your view ; but, I 

 can assure you, that if you were to talk to a 

 farmer on this side of the mountains of a field 

 of Corn of a hundred acres during the first year 

 of a settlement, with grassy land and hands 

 scarce, you would frighten him into a third-day 

 ague. In goes your Corn, however ! " Twenty 

 " more : kill 'em !" Nothing but ploughing : no 

 harrowing; no marking; and only a horse- 

 hoeing, during the summer, at a dollar an acre. 



