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cook-house, stables, graneries; & the 'Lot' or 109 small enclosure for cattle. The cotton & corn lands enclosed by a Virginia fence of long split rails, - & should there be much timber on the plantation, they would just cut a ring around each tree so as to prevent further growth, in a short time the leaves fall off, the tree would soon follow & thus the land became quickly cleared. All this for the American Planter, or Farmer is nothing more than what he is brought up to from a child: & even for other of industrious habits they would find but? with difficulty^to carry such operations into effect.

 Say for ^some of those of over populated countries of Europe, they would find a peaceful home, a plentiful table & a progress of time if not

for the first settlers, their children would have rich plantations & farms; wealth would fall into their coffers, where communal City should spring up, as we have seen as if by magic in the United States. Thus a once unhappy starving ^ & dependant family in a few years would look around their own broad domain & find themselves possessed of a hundred-fold more land, stock & produce, than the Lord or Baron whose humble tenants they had been. This is no