IC2 FAR M S. 



General Observations. 



THE humiliating fituation in which this 

 country is placed, at prefent (i795)> 

 through a mifguided attachment to 

 SPECULATIVE COMMERCE, and thro 

 a negledt, not lefs to be lamented, of the 

 PERMANENT INTERESTS of the 

 country,— has given us an opportunity of 

 feeing the utility v^'hich arifes from a 

 GRADATION OF FARMS j and from having 

 farmers of different degrees and conditions, 

 to furnifh the markets with a regular fiap- 

 ply of grain. 



Were the whole of the cultivated lands 

 of the Wand in the hands of fmall needy 

 farmers, unable to keep back the produce 

 from the autumn and winter markets, it is 

 highly probable that the country, during 

 the paft fummer, would have experienced 

 a fcarcity, nearly equal to a famine ; and 

 would, every year, be at the mercy of 

 dealers or middlemen, during the fpring 

 ,^nd fummer months. 



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