ADDRESS. 



Members of the Essex Agricultural Society. 



Ladies and Grentlemen: — For the first time, I stand before a 

 public assemblage to address them. When the Trustees of 

 this Society extended to me, so unanimously and urgently, an 

 invitation to address you at this time, surprised and gratified 

 at such an unexpected honor, without giving it the serious 

 consideration it required of me, I accepted it, then regretted 

 it, and now may repent it. 



Having, however, put my hand to the plow, it was useless 

 for me to look back with vain regret. I have therefore set its 

 point in the soil of the present, and however shallow and 

 uneven may be the furrow, I trust that I may turn over some 

 new strata of information or sub-soil of buried facts, that may 

 enrich, if not your future field, that of your sister industry. 



With such an unskilful ploughman you cannot expect, or 

 receive, the harvest you have gathered from the many cul- 

 tured, practical, and eloquent men who have preceded me. 



I have taken for my subject : — The Pioneer Industries of 

 Essex County, — Planting and Fishing, their past and present 

 success. As the fishermen were first to occupy the field, 1 will 

 consider their industry first, for had it not been for them, your 

 farmers of Essex County would not be here today. 



In the records of the Great Council of Nesv England is 



