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articles. This trade will be more and more valuable as that 

 country fills up with people. 



Why do our merchants when from home in quest of goods 

 buy in New York, domestic goods, which are produced in 

 Rhode Island and Massachusetts? The New Yorker purcha- 

 ses them at the east and puts his profits on them. Why should 

 Ohio pay these profits? The article of fish, a great amount 

 of which we consume annually, should always be bought in 

 Boston or even farther eastward. The savings in the pur- 

 chase of these things in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 

 would in a few years, amount to a million of dollars. Why 

 not add this million to our wealth? Why not go to Montreal 

 and obtain our English cloths, and order them home, aftd 

 then rapidly proceed to Boston and Providence and procure 

 their productions, and return to Ohio, through New York, 

 Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and there complete the assort- 

 ments? 



Our trade to the south is very important to us, and is daily 

 increasing in amount and value. Our cotton, sugar, coffee 

 and spice are brought to us from the south. When we have 

 more houses established in New Orleans, Tampico, Cuba and 

 St. Domingo, more of our productions will there be sold, con- 

 sumed and paid for, in the productions of those regions. Steam- 

 ers, such as navigate lake Erie, rigged with tall masts, carry- 

 ing sails would best suit the navigation of the Gulf of Mexico. 

 The people of Ohio can build and navigate them from island 

 to island, and from port to port ; extending our commerce, and 

 enriching our citizens. Our coffee, our cotton and sugar 

 should be purchased by us on the spot, where they are pro- 

 duced. 



Our commerce on the upper lakes should be increased an- 

 nually, and those seas covered with our sails. 



The fisheries on those lakes, ought to contribute at least a 

 million of dollars' worth of fish annually to this state. 



All these extensions of our trade and navigation will in- 

 crease our manufactures, and open new outlets, for our agri- 

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