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The chairmen, porters, and coal-heavers in London, and those

unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and

the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are

said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of

people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food

can afford a more decisive proof of its nourishing quality, or of

its being peculiarly suitable to the health of the human

constitution.

It is difficult to preserve potatoes through the year, and

impossible to store them like corn, for two or three years

together. The fear of not being able to sell them before they

rot, discourages their cultivation, and is, perhaps, the chief

obstacle to their ever becoming in any great country, like bread,

the principal vegetable food of all the different ranks of the

people.

PART II.-Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and

sometimes does not, afford Rent.