Sh AGRICULTURAL MUSUEM 



is generally of much greater bulk and weight than the 

 merchautlise which is taken back in return. From just 

 views of their true interests in this respect, the Eastern 

 and Northern States have, for many years past, been 

 making the greatest efforts to improve tiic navigation 

 of their rivers, and by canals and turnpike roads, to af- 

 ford to every part of the country, the mo«t compkie 

 means of communication with their commercial towns. 

 Notwithstanding her distant position and the embar- 

 rassments of her rout, New- York has preoetupied a 

 very considerable portion of that internal commerce 

 M'hich has its natural course along the waters ol the Po. 

 tomak, and a very respectable exploring party of her 

 citizens is now out, to devise the means of extending 

 her grasp. Nor has Pennsylvania been an id e specta 

 tor. By means of her turnpike roads, which she is push- 

 ing on even to the Ohio, she has engrossed a still 

 Sfreater share of the Western Trade, independently of 

 the commercial advantages which have resulted fn m 

 such public spirited and well directed measures, 

 other important consequences have resulted. The face 

 of the country has been improved and beautified— the 

 population has been vastly increased — ^^and the value of 

 real property been greatly enhanced. 



It is pleasing to observe that something of the same 

 spirit has recently been gradually, though slovvl}-, pro- 

 gressing to the South and West. The legislature of iNJa- 

 ryland have lately manifested a just discernmont of the 

 true interests of that important state— The city of Bal- 

 timore is making efforts worthy of her rapid increase 

 in wealth and poj)uIation- The advantages accruing 

 to the farmers in tiic country, from the turnpike roads 

 which she is extending, in various dirctions, towards the 

 North and West, are daily dissipating the prejudices 

 which had been imbibed by clownish ignorance, and 

 were fostered by sordid ra])acily. Experience is teach- 

 ing them that what they had dreaded as bringing nii% 



