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The adjacent states still continue their parental re- 

 gard — They have not yet withdrawn their fostering 

 lii^nd — They imri", heretofore, incorporated a Company 

 %vith extensive powers, to improve the navigation of 

 the upper Potomak and its branches — the}- had sub- 

 scribed and coTitributv^d ];i goly to ihe stock of that 

 Company — and, during (he last winter, the Legislature 

 of Maryland, with a truh laudable liberality, have au- 

 thorized the raising of 300,000 Dollars by Lotteiy, to be 

 expiiiJid, uadjr thi: direction of that Institution in more 

 CO npielely effecting the objects of their association — 

 Still it remains with the people themselves, to determine- 

 whethar they will proiit by a boon so bountifully be- 

 stowed. If lotteries, which it must be acknowledged 

 have become too common, are in any case admissible, 

 it must be to eft'ect an object so !mj)ortant — It cannot 

 therefore but be confidently hoped, that the good peo- 

 ple, whose estates are to be increased in value by the 

 expenditure of so large a fund, and wh "se produce is 

 to be borne to market on the Potomak and its l)ranches, 

 the Monocacy, the Shenandoah, the Conococheague, ti c 

 South Branch and their numerous tributaiy streams, will 

 manifest a knowledge of their own interest, a liberality 

 and a public spirit, not inferior to those manifested by 

 their brethren of Pennsylvania, New York and the 

 Eastern State So 



VIATOR. 



To the Editor of the J gricultural Museum, 



SIR, 



Being a Member of the Columbian Agricultural 

 Society, and having received the two first Numbers of 

 your periodical Paper, the Agricultural Museum, with 

 which I am pleased, as I think every genuine American 

 ought to be, having for its object the promotion of A- 

 merican manufactures, I take this opportunity of sta- 

 ting to you my first attempt at making cloth for my own 



