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Untried means. Apprehensions of failure and 

 consequent loss operate more strongly than 

 disinclination ; for a desire to enlarge his profits 

 is full as lively in him as in other men> Avhichj 

 aided by a genius active in imitating, would 

 certainly impel him to try his success at any 

 innovation, productive of corresponding ad-^ 

 A^antages, that might be introduced by another. 

 Example is the only stimulus required, and it 

 is well worth the attention of those to whom 

 the welfare of the British colonies is confided^ 

 and who must be sensible of the importance of 

 this one in particular, to consider of means by 

 which this stimulus could be most effectually 

 excited. Whatever encouragement might be 

 given as an incentive to the industry of the na- 

 tive, or the alien settler, to persevere in an ap- 

 proved plan of clearing, draining, and getting un- 

 der cultivation the new landSj or of improvement 

 upon such as are already under management^ 

 by a reform of the present system, a judicious 

 variation of crops, and the introduction of new 

 articles suitable to the climate, of which there 

 are many, would be attended with so much, 

 benefit that in a very few years these pro- 

 vinces must become one of the most valuable 

 of all the exterior possessions of Great Britain. 



The practice of husbandry in Canada is de- 

 fective in some very principal points: in the 



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