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462 Of PfJjJi:I.:'fiotl, Prrr'.;i.rion,
that soil, will draw a supply of manufactures fr-om
their countrymen 31. home. \Vhil~t th~ inhabitant.
continue few, and th~ lands cheap and fresh .. the ct,l·
onists will find it easier and more pr0fitable t# iai-e
corn, or rear cattle~ 7&nd with corn and c;lttle, to purchase
wollen cloth, f~r~ i~~ance, or linen, thar, to
spin or wea,ye these articles for themselv'7~. 1~he
Dl-3tner country, meanwhile, d~rives from this connexion
an increase both of provision and empJo}-ment.
It promotes at o&ce the two great requisites, upon
which the facility of subsistence, and, by consequence,
the state of population, depend, productIon and distribution,
and this in a manner the most direct and beneficial.
( No ~it~arion can be imagined more favounttIe
to population, than- that of a coUntry which
f\Vor~s ?p goods for· alhert:, -whilst t~e~e others are
cultivatIng new tracts _ of land for tnem~i For as,
in a genial climate, and from a fresh soil~ the labour
of pne man will raise provision enough for ten, it is
manifest that,· where aU are employed in agriculture"
much the greater part of the produce \ViIi be spared
from the -t:onsumption; and that three (tut r:f four,
at least, of those who are maintained by it, will re -ide
in -the country \1bich· recei~es the redundancy.
When the new -country does not remit-pr!J'l}ision to
the old one,-tbeadvantlge is les5-; but still the exportation
- of wrought goodq~ by whbtever return they
are paid for, advances population in that secondary
way, in which those trades promote it that are nOf
employed in the production of provision. Whatever
prejudice, therefore, some late events have excited
against schem~ of colonization, the system itself is
founded in apparent national utility ; 2nd what is
more, upon principles favourable to the common ifltere~t
of hrtman nature : tor it does not apP(lar by
what other method newly di~covered and unfrequented
countries can be peopled, or, during the in ..
fancy "c,f their e~tabli~hment, be protected or suppJj(6d.
The 'error which we of this nation at present lam,'nt,
s~elns to bave con~ist~d not R() muer, in the original
formation of colonies, as in the subsequent manage-