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not limited to the linen manufacture, which may be over- 

 stocked ; perhaps is so already by the interference of 

 cotton, and abatement of demand. 



The judicious proprietor, when he speculates on co- 

 lonizing- his wilds, will coolly consider what manufacture is 

 best suited to his local circumstances, and likely to have a 

 permanent demand. As he will not disturb his sheep or 

 remove them from his mountains, his own wool holds out 

 an inducement to commence with the woollen manufacture : 

 nor is he limited to his own crude materials ; others may 

 be found, easily imported, and to which the industry and 

 ingenuity of man can give such additional value as to 

 make the trade highly profitable. ' 



It remains forme to show how these speculations, so 

 advantageous both to the state, and to the local proprietor, 

 may be carried into effect, at a cost not beyond the reach 

 of our present contracted means, and an immediate em- 

 ployment found to the industrious and unoccupied poor. 



In my former Chapter, on Grassy Mountains, my object 

 was limited to the provision of winter food tor their summer 

 stock. I did not look forward to human inhabitants, nor 

 carry my views beyond the cattle themselves now in pos- 

 session ; nor was I careful as to the elevation of the small 

 tracts upon which I wished to operate, leaving the pro- 

 prietor to consult his own convenience, ready to attend 

 him to whatever altitudes he might think fit to ascend. 

 But when our object is changed, and we look to a settle- 

 ment for human inhabitants, where, by their own industry, 

 they may extract from the soil their own food as well as 

 that of their domestic cattle, we must take care not to 

 carry our colony into regions, where the powers of Nature 



