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not America pursue a similar policy as to manufactured cotton ? 
until the cotton manufacture is established here, peace will bring 
but little relief to the cotton-grower of the southern states. T. C'^ 
CULTIVATED AND UNCULTIVATED LANDS OE 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The following table, is from a report of the committee of the 
house of commons in 1795, but I do not know of any thing more 
authentic since. 
General view of the extent of the island of Great Britain, 
and the proportion between the waste and uncultivated, and the 
cultivated parts thereof. 
Acres, 
England and Wales » „ 
Scotland ^ 
Uncultivated,. 
7,888,777" 
14,218,244 
22,107,021 
England and Wales 
Scotland ^ « 
Cultivated. 
39,027,156 
12d5l,471 
51,178,627 
England and "Wales 
Scotland 
Total Extent. 
46,9 15,935 
26,369,695 
Of the value of the waste lands of England, 
73,285,628 
were they cuitival 
ed to that degree of improvement, of v/hich they are capable, it is 
difficult to form a correct idea.— We shall submit, however, some 
data as the basis on which to ground future calculation. Allow- 
ing that there are twenty -two millions of acres of uninclosed lands 
in the kingdom, the' v/hole of these may be divided in the following 
manner 
m bc7' of Acres , 
Lands incapable of improvement - - 1,000,000 
proper for plantations « - - 3,000,000 
