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a good lesson ; they must consider not only, how their new 

 inhabitants are to be supplied with food, but also what 

 sources tliey have, whence other necessaries and comforts 

 are to be supplied. 



The bleak countries, to which we are about to ascend, 

 are not favourable to agriculture : moderate exertions 

 may procure sufficient produce for domestic consumption ; 

 but it is from lower and richer soils, that markets are to 

 be supplied, and funds raised to reward the labour of the 

 agriculturist. 



Domestic manufacture seems to me the only resource 

 for our new colonists ; and the proprietor must be well 

 prepared on this subject, and must have effectually se- 

 cured domestic occupation for them, before he ventures to 

 transplant them ; otherwise he may be certain of seeing his 

 colony soon deserted. 



What this domestic occupation is to be, I leave to 

 those to determine who have more knowledge in such 

 matters, and who may be acquainted with the local cir- 

 cumstances of the country in question. I shall content 

 myself with showing how the necessaries which the soil 

 can produce are to be procured. I shall not mention ftiel, 

 because the regions I look to generally abound with turf ; 

 and no proprietor would think of a colony, where a copious 

 supply of that article of prime necessity was not under 

 his command. 



I shall now assume the proprietor of a mountain dis- 

 trict to be determined to establish a colony in his wilds, 

 and to avail himself of his own means to induce settlers to 

 repair to it. He builds for each a comfortable cottage, 



