It is probable that the very frugal manner in which the Gentoos are in the habit of living contributes in some degree to the famines of Indostan.
In America, where the reward of labour is at present so liberal, the lower classes might retrench very considerably in a year of scarcity without materially distressing themselves.

A famine therefore seems to be almost impossible.

It may be expected that in the progress of the population of America, the labourers will in time be much less liberally rewarded.

The numbers will in this case permanently increase without a proportional increase in the means of subsistence.
In the different states of Europe there must be some variations in the proportion between the number of inhabitants and the quantity of food consumed, arising from the different habits of living that prevail in each state.

The labourers of the South of England are so accustomed to eat fine wheaten bread that they will suffer themselves to be half starved before they will submit to live like the Scotch peasants.