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CEREALS. 



'For some time past the Old World has been fed from the 

 New. The scarcity you have felt would have been a deso- 

 lating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true fil- 

 ial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast 

 of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted 

 parent.' " 



Dr. Young furnishes me with the following statement, 

 showing the exportation of corn and meal from the United 

 States from 1790 to 1799, and to what countries they were 

 sent: 



