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population and improvement of our country. Multitu- 

 dinous bodies seldom succeed in such pursuits ; but 

 this manufactory and warehouse will combine the ad- 

 vantages arising from the countenance, assistance and 

 encouragement, we can afford ; and those accruing 

 from private enterprize and industry, stimulated by 

 profit and reward to individual exertion. 



Richard Peters. 



Belmont, July 1 5th 1809. 



The ware room could be made, in addition to its othex» 

 uses, a place for receiving and distributing all kinds oi grCitn 

 and seeds, either sent or procured from other countries, or col- 

 lected in our own. Their diffusion might be effected by sales ; 

 or, when justifiable, gratuitously. All specimens of e'^r^/z^, or 

 any native substances calculated for manures, or other agricul- 

 tural purposes, might therein be exhibited. 



The society, not having funds to carry on the plan proposed, 

 have given to it their decided approbation, but could do n^ 

 more ; save that they have promulgated it, for general infor- 

 mation. No person has yet dared to carry it into effect. The 

 society know too well the ineificacy of attempts at extensive 

 manufactiires, by bodies of men composed as they are, of citi- 

 zens, whose time is indispensibly devoted to their private 

 concerns. Enterprising individuals, assisted by patronage and 

 encouragement, succeed best in such undertakings; when their 

 own emolument stimulates exertion. And the plan is formed, 

 under this view of the subject. It is confidently believed, 

 and earnestly wished, that some person, competent and inge- 

 nious, wHl e'er long see its advantages, and undertake its 

 Execution. 



R. P. 



