■^^ TzoifxmiRiA. MoxoGVNiA. SaUcomia, 



7i:andel, where large quantities of the fossil alkali might no doubt be 

 made at a low rale. Such manufactures deserve much encouragement; 

 particularly here,, where there are many more laboiuing people* than 

 can possibly find employment. Large quantities of this substance are 

 annually im ported hito England from the Mediterranean, for making- 

 soap, glass, &c. It is worth about iwenty-eight or thirty shillings 

 per cwt. and as labour is cheap on this coast, the alkali might be 

 made, I think, at so low a rate as to admit of its being sent to jEnr][- 

 land, and payi4ig-a freight of \0£. the ton, or more ; provided it 

 could be there imported duty free. 



* This was written before the famine of 1791, 2, and 3; the case is now (1794) dif- 

 ferent, as fully half, if uot more vf the labouring classes were carried off by that 

 deplorable calamity. 



