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more than Massachusetts, possesses within herself 

 all that constitutes the moral and physical strength 

 of a Commonwealth ? Where is industry more 

 manfully displayed and better rewarded ? We think 

 no where on the face of the earth. It is for us 

 then to examine all the capacities of our ancient 

 Commonwealth — to study well all her interests, 

 — to procure for them all the protection of good 

 laws, — to overlook none of her important, nor in- 

 considerable branches of industry, and above all, 

 to take good precaution to observe the principles 

 and to obey the precepts of that noble generation 

 of men, who appropriated the proceeds of the 

 Cape Cod fishery to found our beautiful system of 

 free schools.* 



* £ome of the uses to which the productions of the sea may 

 be applied, and which are not adverted to in the preceding 

 sketch, appear by the following extract from the Barnstable 

 Journal, of Feb. 7, 1833. 



" Feeding Cattle on Fish. The cattle at Province- 

 town feed upon fish with apparently as good relish as upon 

 the best kinds ol fodder. It is said that some cows, kept there 

 several years, will, when grain and fish are placed before 

 them at the same time, prefer the latter, eating the whole of 

 the fish before they touch the grain. Like one of old, we 

 were rather incredulous on this subject, till we had the evi- 

 dence of ocular demonstration. We have seen the cows at 

 that place boldly enter the surf, in pursuit of the offals thrown 

 from the fish boats on the shore, and when obtained, masticate 

 and swallow every part except the hardest bones. A Pro- 



