168 corn. — Dry Land, 



be emirely regulated by such vosts of prnduction. 

 The mines lie in the inidst of mountain! and iu tracts, 

 the inhabitants of which have tittle iutercour.se with 

 the coast. So that the gold will he, as it h.i* ahuns 

 been, mouopolilized by native chief* ajal traders, the 

 moment it is out of the mine. The Mount Ophir 

 pold, from a specimen of ore sent here several veara 

 since, appears to run in wins tLrumih quartz, and as 

 this quartz itself exists principally iu the s'ate of 

 taoad veins in the primary rocks, ue ma\ have some 

 idea of the perhaps inexhaustible quantity of 'that mend 

 in the regions adverted to. Demand, after all, most 

 fix the price of gold, and as this has fluctuated greatly, 

 the number of miners have diminished considerably 

 within the past few \ears, if the information of U»<? 

 Chinese may he depended on. 



DftY Land. 



Dry Land or laud, not periodically /loaded, herd 

 being as jet hut little available for grain produce, ils 

 value and that of what can be raised on it cannot lie 

 submitted to any known rules. The vwpfkJg quick- 

 ness of returns, owimj to the nature of the pr «duce 

 raised, and frequently the still more fluctuating nature 

 of the d en and f'jr thai produce, render the cubivaii ei 

 of dry land more or less inappreciable by any standard 

 oncost and prices founded on the mere price of lab >r. 

 JkHfeotfgfa the price of labor f *r raising many expor- 

 table sorts of produce will, to a Certain extent, utifoft 

 profits, yet the latter must essential)' depend on the 

 intensity of demand a> d.em. Labor will enter into 

 the price of some' of these, but iu many it will hardly 

 appear; while the demand is "rear. High or I w 

 M-ni^s, iu such instances, are n it f I j o causes ',Hie_>'i or 

 low prices* bur high prices will admit of high w«i- tea 

 being given, while low prices will probably prevent 

 wages being given at all. Iu some commodities-*- 



