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pare the magnitude of the prospects that the extension of agri- 

 culture holds out, with the small supplies annually furnished to 

 the shipping, must be convinced, that the present system of 

 limited cultivation is a bad one ; and that the profits that are 

 received from the lands of St. Helena, are trivial indeed in com- 

 parison with those that are attainable. 



November, 1811. 



