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15 capital employed on it, or the scientific manner by which the latter is employed,—it has, in short, grown with the growth of the empire, and every succeeding year brings forward some new improvement. In immediate connection with it, we possess a hardy peasantry—educated and brought up in a way which no other country has a parallel, we possess a yeoman tenantry, living contentedly on small, but hard-earned gains—and a proprietory, men of the most enlightened habits and attainments, who, by their industry, have rendered the country