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direction by the mighty stream, including' its tributaries, by which it is 

 drained, and which supply a continuous navigation of upward of ten thous- 

 and miles, with a coast, including both banks, of twice that length, shall 

 be crowded with population, and its resources fully developed, imagination 

 itself is taxed in the attempt to realize the magnitude of its commerce." A 

 commerce he might have added, owing its existence to agriculture alone. 

 It is difficult to conceive of the extend to which the resources of this great 

 section may be developed by the thronging population which will one day 

 gather there. Then will be realized and appreciated the truth of that 

 statement of Webster, than "agriculture feeds; to a great extent it clothes 

 us; without it we should not have manufactures, we should not have com- 

 merce. They all stand together, like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the 

 centre, and that largest is agriculture/' 



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