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 acertain; there are o many varying circumtances as to have defeated the utmot endeavour that has been ued for the purpoe; but the invetigation which has taken place, at the expence of much labor in the offices, leads to a peruaion that the author was under a mitake, when he expreed an opinion in a former publication that the barrack ytem was one of œconomy; he fell into the error from a tatement of the late Barrack MaterGeneral, who mot auredly thought it was a corred one when it was made; or he would not have allowed it to go out to the world under the anction of his authority. The etabliftiment is very large and very expenive, much exceeding any conjecture the author had formed on the ubject,