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When the capital of a country is not fufficient for all the purpofes 

 of produftive labour : in proportion, as a greater fliare is employed in 

 agriculture, the greater will be the quantity of produdlive labour, which 

 it fets in motion in the country ; as will, likewife, be the value, which 

 its employment adds to the annual value of the land, and labour of 

 the fociety. Capital, employed in the fupport of manufaftures, mull, of 

 courfe, put into motion the greatefl: poffible quantity of produftive la- 

 bour, that a capital employed in manufafture can do ; when it fupports 

 a manufafture, that, at the fame time, promotes, by a neceflary influ- 

 ence, the cultivation of land. 



Where the manufafture neceffarily requires the aid of machinery, in 

 a great degree; or (lands in need of flielter for the operators, fo as 

 to require the ereftion of extenfive buildings, before it can be properly 

 carried on ; or where thofe, who praftife it, mud neceffarily ferve aa 

 apprenticefliip, before they can acquire a proper knowledge ; the eftab- 

 lifliment of fuch manufaftures mufl be confidered as beneficial to the 

 interefts of agriculture. 



When fuch manufaftures as thefe are ellabliflied in a country, by 

 convening a number of people in one place, who muft all be fed by 

 the farmer, they ellabliih a ready market, for the produce of his ground, 

 and that at his very door; and fave him the additional expence and 

 labour of fending to a diftance, in quell of purchafers, thus, thefe ma- 

 nufaftures, by furnifliing the hulbandman with a conllant fupply of ready 

 money, and augmenting his profits, will give energy to his exertions, 

 in the cultivation of his farm. 



It is alfo to be obferved, that fome manufailures, not only employ 

 diredly a number of produftive hands, in their immediate object ; but 

 alfo employ a confiderable quantity of produftive labour, in providing 

 the inllruments and apparatus requifite to the commencement of the 

 manufafture. Thus, a large prehminary eftablilhment, in buildings, va- 

 rious tools, and complicated machinery, will employ the brick-maker, 

 the Hone-cutter, the lime-burner, the mafon, the flater, the .fmith, the 



carpenter. 



