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as women of the lower classes, wear cotton cloth, both in the 

 summer and winter, and it has been computed that there has 

 been manufactured, for one or two years past, of this kind of 

 cloth, to the amount of 250,000 pounds annually. Although 

 this necessarily lessens the importation of Foreign goods, it is 

 not wholly of choice, the people being obliged to it, as the bal- 

 ance of trade, has, for many years, been against them, the colony 

 being much indebted to Great Britain, even in the opinion of 

 good judges, to the amount of 1,500,000 pounds. 



In regard to the stocks of horses, cattle, and hogs, they are 

 very considerable, especially the first, there being a great num- 

 ber of the best English breed now among us. And, as to plate 

 and household furniture, this colony exceeds all the others upon 

 the continent, so that, upon the whole, it is much the richest as 

 well as of the greatest importance to Great Britain, and, there- 

 fore, well deserves its encouragement and protection." 



Pownall, in his Topographical description of North America, 

 says of Henry's map : " A map engraved by Jefferys and called 

 ' A new and accurate map of Virginia, by John Henry,' was 

 published in 1770. I was in hopes to have derived information 

 from this, but upon examination of it, it appears to me to be a 

 very inaccurate compilation; defective in topography; and not 

 very attentive even to geography; the draughtsman or the en- 

 graver has totally omitted the South Branch of Potomack 

 River: nor is that curious and interesting piece of information, 

 the communication between the waters of Virginia and the 

 waters of the Ohio, which was known when this was published, 

 marked in it." 



1775- 



A map of the American Indian nations, adjoining to the Mis- 

 sissippi West and East Florida, Georgia, S. & N. Carolina, Vir- 

 ginia, &c. Jno. Lodge sculp. 



{In Adair (James) The history of the American indians 4° 

 London, for E. & 0. Dilley, 1775.) 



1775- 

 A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia, (etc.) Drawn 

 by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefiferson in 1775. Printed for Robt. 

 Sayer & Thos. Jefiferys, London. 



