text:  With a wise policy therefore the interchange should be of an active and most extensive nature betwixt two countries reckoning together more than forty millions of inhabitants one of which with a superficial breadth of territory out of all proportion with a comparatively thinly-scattered community abounding with raw products and natural riches of almost spontaneous growth; whilst the other as densely peopled on the contrary in comparison with its territorial limits is stored with all the elements and surpasses in all the arts and productions of manufacturing industry