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The _chief_ want of Cornwall, I was told by an old resident, is _soil_; the rock is too near the surface. Herein art will do much in a few generations. Attica and Palestine--stony soils--bore plentiful pine fruit. Our Channel Islands utter the same thing. In England the _landlord_ is the effectual starver of the soil. Bishop Stubbs, a first-rate authority on agriculture, explains the immense excess of crops raised acre by acre under _peasant_ culture, 'because the farmers' land is labour-starved.'