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the demand fot a moderate period. When all the 

 wet land shall have been located, there will yet remain 

 .several tracts of dry land, unless more capital shall 

 have been employed on it than hitherto for the raising 

 of produce adapted to foreign consumption 



The condition of the Chiuese sugar-pl anters in the 

 Province clearly evinces that neither they nor any 

 other class of native cultivators, have the means of 

 speculating extensively in the cultivation of such land 

 without the support of mercantile or other capitalists. 



Ii is uot improbable that by the time, or perhaps 

 somewhat before the time, when the present popula- 

 tion, considered as mainly an agricultural one, abaH 

 have increased to one hundred thousand souls or a 

 little more than double what it now is, — a period which 

 will be. shorter or longer, more perhaps according to 

 the rale of increase by emigration, than of that by 

 births, — the whole will bare begun to press on the 

 means of subsistence; unless, (and it is a very probable 

 supposition,) an increased demand for luxuries and 

 conveniences, and accumulated capital, may have 

 begun to detach a larger proportion than at present, 

 of the pe ople, from agricultural pursuits. This pro- 

 cess is in fact begun, and its there is already a quan- 

 tity of grain produced surplus to that required to 

 support the actual cultivating population, — aid it is 

 believed more than sufficient for the support of the 

 u >n -agricultural portion also, — every increase in the 

 q i mtii v of produce will afford of a separation of this 

 latter class from the firmer, in a greater ratio than that 

 at which population is increasing; winch would seem to 

 be a sign thai the people are becoming, mire easy in 

 their circumstances, and that they will probably be- 

 come more so as the mass becomes still more advau- 

 tageously distributed. In the event of an unrelieved 

 pressure * taking -place, the surplus population will 



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