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 432 Economists Thomas Moore in The Great Error of American Agriculture Exposed (Baltimore, 1801); James Humphrey's Gleanings on Husbandry (Philadelphia, 1803); John Roberts's The Pennsyl- vania Farmer (Philadelphia, 1804); and, above all, by John Taylor's Arator (Georgetown, 1814) and J. S. Skinner's The American Farmer (Baltimore, 1820). Colonel Taylor, of Vir- ginia, is also to be noted for his earlier Enquiry into the Principles and Tendencies of Certain Public Measures (Philadelphia, 1794) and his later Tyranny Unmasked (1822). A growing interest was now taken in statistical presentation. Worthy of notice are S. Blodgett, Jr.'s Thoughts on the Increasing Wealth and Natural Economy of the United States (1801) and Economica (1806); Timothy Dwight's Statistical Account of Connecticut (1811); R. Dickinson's A Geographical and Statistical Review of Massachusetts (18 13); and Moses Greenleaf's Statistical View of Maine (18 16). Widely read were Adam Seybert's Statistical Annals (1818), D. B. Warden's Statistical, Political, and His- torical Account of the United States (3 vols., 1819), John Bristed's Resources of the United States (181 8), and William Darby's Universal Gazetteer (1827) and View of the United States, Histor- ical, Geographical, and Statistical (1828). We may also mention that the discussion on the recharter of the bank was responsible for Dr. Erick Bollman's Paragraphs on Banks (Philadelphia, 1 8 10) and the Letters of Common Sense Respecting the State Bank and Paper Currency (Raleigh, 181 1). There is only one author of prominence during this period and he was in many respects an amateur economist whose chief reputation was earned in other fields. Mathew Carey (i 760-1 839) of Philadelphia diverted such leisure as he could take from his publishing business to a consideration of economic questions. In the earlier period he was interested in banking topics, as is shown by his Memorials Praying a Repeal or Sus- pension of the Law Annulling the Charter of the Bank (1786), his Letters to Adam Seybert on the Bank (181 1), and his Essays on Banking (1816). In the meantime he had issued The Olive Branch (1814), devoted to some of the economic and political questions growing out of the war, which rapidly ran through many editions. Beginning in the twenties, however, he de- voted most of his efforts to a defence of the protective system, as is evidenced by his Essays on Political Economy (1822), An