I/O corn. — Dry Land. 



rent outlay ond interest, — deducting the produce he 

 may obtain, — must quite depend on demand and llie 

 thousand circumstances which affect it ; while every 

 year reduces the exchangeable value of the tenure, 

 until it looses nearly all value in exchange from the 

 Hiietirtainty of the future after the expiration of the 

 lease. The cultivation of sugar and indigo, with 

 some other produce, which, like these, yield quicker 

 returns, are not so mueli uiiliin the seope of these, 

 remarks. 



In Europe, it is dry laud, excepting where rice is 

 partially cultivated, which yields the chief food for 

 the people. Here, the distinction betwixt the dry and 

 the flooded Is so marked, that unless we were to sup- 

 pose it possible that an insuperable bar could be op- 

 posed to emigration, eausin.n' a resort to inferior kinds 

 fit food to he only obtainable by a double portion of 

 labor on dry land, and thus doubling population 

 without an increase of surplus. — if indeed any such 

 surplus produce could then exist, — we should be con- 

 strained to admit that, in so far as regards dry land 

 here, the population on it can never press against the 

 means of subsistence. The value of dry land is 

 therefore greatly inferior to wet land, in regard fo the 

 respective powers of each to yield the mere necessary 

 fit*! of tlie people, and as it is such food or produce 

 alone which can be expected to maintain a pretty 

 equable exchangeable value in the market, whatever 

 may have been the cost of raising it, so the elements 

 lij which that produce, its value, the profits on it, 

 and rents are estimated, are totally distinct from those 

 uhich, with a few exceptions only, regulate the 

 pi ires, rents, and profits of dryland prodnee, that 

 last not being produce absolutely necessary to the 

 existence of man. Under the above view, it would 

 appear that there is little probability of much of the 



