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tOli THE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM. 



It is believcf] that when the census now faking, is 

 completed, the population of the City of Washington, 

 and th' two to.vns in the District of Coiumhia, wiil b? 

 found to have doiiblefi in the last ten years, unpropitious 

 as these 3'cars have been, to the growth of towns de- 

 pending for their prosperity on that kind of trade, which 

 has for its basis, the products of our own country ; — and 

 which are too remote from the sea, to rival towns on 

 the sea-board, in what is called, the carrying trade. 



If in such times the inci-ease of population has been 

 so great, what may not be expected, in the next ten 

 years to come, in which, and perhaps in all future times, 

 for at least half a century, it seems more than probable, 

 from the state of tnc world, we must content ourselves 

 with that trade only, which depends upon our own re- 

 sources? And it will, 1 doubt not, be a happy circum- 

 stance for the country, if we can bring ourselves to 

 so much moderation, as to aim at no more — indeed, this 

 properly cultivated, will be enough for a!I our activity, 

 and all our enterprize. In such a state of things, the pro- 

 gress of Washington, and the oth -i- towns in the Dis- 

 trict, win bear some proportion to the magnitude of the 

 back-country with which nature has connecleil them 



It is well known, that the country west, and north 

 and south west of the District, watered by streams tri- 

 butary to the I'otoraak, and affording, for some months 

 in the year,iniand navigation for several hundred miles, 

 is certainly aiiongst the most fertile on the eastern wa- 

 ters ; and may be justly denominated the grain country 



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