Excerpt from Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, Vol. 5: Containing Communications on Various Subjects in Husbandry and Rural Affairs

This exuberant plenty of raw materials, particularly coal and iron, will raise up factories, which will increase population, and invite new settlers in'our forests, and countries bordering upon them. Thus the-cultivators of the soil, ' in those regions, will find markets at their doors, sufficient to require the great proportion of their products. This will supersede the necessity of conveying them to our city; and give to those in its vicinity every demand for their produce, which they can reasonably desiie.

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