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likewise, at the admirable record given in the appendix F,, of 

 Benjamin Goddard of Brookline, in Norfolk county, of several 

 years' experience, a man who is as incapable of deceiving others 

 as he is of being deceived himself; whose sound judgment 

 and accuracy are proverbial ; and whose exact and ex- 

 emplary husbandry is the index of his whole character and 

 life. 



Such is the increase of our population engaged in trade and 

 manufactures, and the mechanic arts, and what may be called 

 the intellectual, the talking, the teaching, and the ornamental 

 professions, and the large class belonging to the do-nothing-but- 

 spend-money profession, that Middlesex county being so imme- 

 diately accessible to the markets which these create, I believe 

 there is scarcely a rod of ground in the whole county, which 

 may not be cultivated to a profit. But we must not expect im- 

 possibilities. We must not look to husbandry, which in Middle- 

 sex must be a kind of mixed and retail husbandry, for sudden 

 or large accumulations. The gains must be small and gradual ; 

 but they are a full recompense for labor steadily exerted, fru- 

 gality strictly maintained, and capital judiciously applied. We 

 ought not to expect more ; and if all our reasonable notions of 

 gain and wealth had not been deranged and excited to a pitch 

 of insanity by an inflated paper and bubble currency, continu- 

 ally exploding in a man's pocket like a bunch of friction matches 

 or Chinese crackers, disordering men's intellects, and throwing 

 prices and values into infinite confusion, we should see this 

 thing in a different light ; and find in a judicious agriculture 

 all reasonable expectations answered. 



I say all reasonable expectations ; for men, in this respect arc 

 not reasonable, which I beg leave to illustrate by some exam- 

 ples, in which I will not expose those who have sat for the 

 likeness, if they do not betray themselves by their own emo- 

 tion. 



A very industrious, sober, frugal man. who left a lucrative 

 business in the city six years ago, to go upon a farm^ told me 

 not long since he had not found farming as profitable as he ex- 



