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 ¬said that the improvement of your fisheries had not reached its height. — This is the moment to reach it by the most unremitting exertions. — Neither the sea nor the land can have been • enjoyed to the full, whilst your population is under difficulties for support. — There arc no doubt with you, as with us, various roots of cheap and easy culture, which though at once prolific and nutritious, are not by themselves inviting to the appetite, nor sufficient for a life of labour, without a mixture of animal food. — In times of distress, therefore, when the plough may fail you, a well ploughed ocean would be a constant refuge. — You can there have no unpropitious seed times, nor uncertain harvests ; — tempests could only disperse the reapers for a short season, and the crop would always remain undamaged in a boundless extent.— Even in England the system of supply is far from being perfect; it is brought to an astonishing height for the luxuries of London, yet is still defective in the more mo- mentous department of general and cheap dis- tribution, ¬