APPENDIX, 



COMPRISING ADDITIONAL FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS: 

 ON THE CULTURE OF HEMP. 



No. r.. 



A Letter from the Rt. Hon. Lord Somerville,. on the Importance of growing Hemp, 

 together with an Estimate of the Expences. 



Such are the political relations of Great Britain, and such is the unjust, as well 

 as unnatural, alliance of the Continental Powers against our country, that it be- 

 comes an imperious duty to make every possible effort that may tend to ensure 

 to her that proud security which her maritime force has hitherto commanded ; 

 and on this account I beg leave to call the most serious attention of the cultivators 

 of our soil to the growth of Hemp. 



The prejudice which formerly existed against this crop, and the temptation 

 offered to the farmer by the great profits arising from its culture, have induced 

 many land-owners to insert in their leases covenants altogether prohibiting its 

 growth. It is highly probable that, if additional bounties were given by government, 

 they would tend to encrease those prohibitions ; and as the culture is now well un- 

 derstood in this kingdom, I am inclined to think we no longer need them. Boun- 

 ties are not wanted to encourage those who, being released from all restrictions 

 on farming their own lands, can draw a profit such as is hereafter stated from a< 

 crop which does not lie in ground more than three or four months.. 



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