CONCLUSION. 



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the obsolete necessities and forms of centuries have 

 gathered around it, and more will be accomplished for 

 its increase in commercial value, its preference as a 

 field for investment, its promotion of skill and inven- 

 tion, its contribution to the employment and the hap- 

 piness of the greatest number, than all the mere 

 physical improvements that could be enumerated or 

 detailed, were every ' Clay Farm ' in merry England 

 to supply its ' Chronicle/ 



