GIUSEPPE DEVINCENZI
   seufcs interior proportious with reference to tlie whole of Italy.
   Hence it may be inferred that the cultivation of cotton in Italy encounters no other limi tati ons except those arising from the comparatively little prò lì t to be obtainecl from other species of cultivation, and from the greater or lesse energy of the nation. It is certain that no small amount of capital will be required to improve our soils, whether it be designed to employ them in the cultivation of this or of any other species of produce; if we mean to obtain ali the advantages derivable from the land and from agriculture. But if these improvements shall produce the profits which, in our opinion, they ought to yield; we are quite unable to suppose that the capital will not be forthcoming. Now, it would be im-possible scantily supplied as we are with agri-cultural statistics, to determine to what extent the cultivation of cotton can be limited by other productions. In treating of English or French agriculture, it is easy to form a conclusion. These countries are partitioned into vast regions, and we can immediately ascertain the average produce of each species of soil in eacli region. There is a definite system of English agriculture; there is a definite sistern of French agriculture. We do not, as yet, possess a definite system of Italian agriculture. There is not, perhaps, a greater diffe-rence between the agriculture of one nation and that of other nations than is to be found between the agricultural systems of the different Italian provinces. Soils of the same naturai excellence frequently produce in widely different degrees, even though situated at an extremely short di-stance from one another; and this is caused partly by the want of roads, partly by the want of drainage, partly by other causes.