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and beneficial purposes. The schools, the navigation of our rivers, and the improvement of our public highways by turnpikes are objects of the highest importance in all civilized States. The land obtained by the last purchase is I believe but of little value. Most of it is pine barren. The water courses no doubt produce some better land of the first quality, but the proportion cannot be as one, to one hundred. Let this land then be sold at public sale upon the Credit given by the US. and let the money be appropriated for the support of the schools exclusively. The money which the two former purchases would have produced would have established as many of these Seminaries as the wants of the State would have required and would have rendered having able every stream in the State affording water sufficient for this purpose, and have cut all the canals which public convenience would have required.