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acquire new fences against the new difficulties in wliich 

 they are placed, or they multiply poorly and become 

 extinct. A good tbuiidiUion is laid for their propaga- 

 tion here hy our possessing ah'eady great numbers of 

 horses of that blood, and by a decided taste and prefer- 

 ence for tliem establislied among tlie people. — Their 

 patience of heat without injury, their superior wind, fit 

 them better in this and the more southern climates 

 even for the drudgeries of the plough and wagon. 

 Northwardly iliey will become an object only to ])ersons 

 of taste an<i fortune, for the saddle and light carriages. 

 To those, and for these uses, their fleetuess and beauty 

 will I'ecommend then). — Besides these there will be 

 other valuable substitutes when the cultivation of to- 

 bacco shall be discontinueil, such as cotton in the east- 

 ern parts of the state, and hemp and flax in the west- 

 ern. 



It is not easy to say what are the articles either of 

 necessity, comfort, or luxury, which we cannot raise, 

 and which we therefore shall be under a necessity of im- 

 ])orti ng from abroad, as every thing hardier than the olive, 

 and as hardy as tiie fig, may be raised here in the open 

 air. Sugar, coffee and tea, indeed, are not between 

 these limits; and habit having placed them among the 

 necessaries of lite with the wealthy part of our citizens, 

 as \ons as these habits remain we must iro tor them to 

 those countries which are able to furnish them. 



QUERY XXI. 



The weights, measures, and the currency of the hard 

 money? Some details relating to exchange with Eu- 

 roj)e .'' 



Our weights and measures are the same which are 

 fixed by acts of parliament in England. How it has 

 happened that in this as well as the other American 

 states the nominal value of coin, was made to differ 

 from what it was in the country we had left, and to 



