. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. w 852 BEPOKTâ1884. I I |ij| III. timber, furs, and oils makinjj; up four-fiftliH of tho remainder. Of lier imports one- fourth may be classed as raw material, for tlio support of textile and other i'liduii. tries ; another fourth, manufactured iron ; a third fourtli, articles of food ; mid the remaininjr fourth, manufactured articles of sundry descriptions. Witli these
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. w 852 BEPOKTâ1884. I I |ij| III. timber, furs, and oils makinjj; up four-fiftliH of tho remainder. Of lier imports one- fourth may be classed as raw material, for tlio support of textile and other i'liduii. tries ; another fourth, manufactured iron ; a third fourtli, articles of food ; mid the remaininjr fourth, manufactured articles of sundry descriptions. Witli these figures, it is easy to see what are the chief articles of intorclianire But when once the railway across the continent is completed, there will he I'ucihties for bringing more of the land under cultivation, and for sending its produce away. The mining output, especiiilly in coal to the I'ticitic, is likely to be great, and it ig quite impossible to conceive to what an extent the wliolo may grow. On the other hand, the United Kingdom will need increasing supplies of food and though her Southern and I'^astern possessions may have the sanu' capacity for producing these, the contiguity of Norlli Auierica, and its geographical positior, in the same zone, make it peculiarly appropriate for the feeding-grouiid of I'lngland. But beyond England's need for importing, sho has other wantsâthat of tlie lamls to receive her growing population which she may iind in her colonies; and tiic occupation for lier accumulated manufacturing power which she may expect to create through those whom she sends forth. Tluis the increase of the species mav be rendered a blessing rather than a curse. For both to fully benetit by this mutual dependence, there ought to be the most unfettered interchange of the commodities which each grows or makes, and whatever may be said as to protection against foreigners, nothing in the siiapi! of protective duties ought to impede or divert commerce hetween portions
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