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prlmum, on which the manfafture operates, whether domeflic pro- 

 duce or foreign, — the manufafturing habits, of a country, and whether 

 the manufadure is wholly new and unknown, or already eflablifhed, 

 and underflood. Whether it remains for the people, to eftablifli a cha- 

 racter, and gain poffeffion of a market for the manufacture — or whe- 

 ther they have already formed a manufafturing character, and fixed 

 themfelves in a market ; — whether the produftions of a manufacture 

 have a probability of becoming confiderable objects of export ; whe- 

 ther the manufactures in queftion, are likely to excite thejealoufy, or 

 to fuffer, from the rivalftiip of other countries. 



The population of a country, by furnifliing abundance of labourers, 

 mull render labour cheap, and prove favourable to the extenfion of 

 manufactures, in general, but the advantages of a full population, and 

 the difadvantages of the contrary fituation of a country, will be parti- 

 cularly felt ; ftiould the legiflature, or an individual, have it in con- 

 templation, to eftablifli a new manufacture. It is an undertaking of 

 fome difficulty, (as we fliall more fully perceive hereafter) to eftablifii 

 a new manufacture, of any fort. It is long before the inhabitants of 

 a country can be brought to perform the feveral operations, with fuch 

 eafe, and dexterity, as are neceffary for the bringing it to perfection. 

 In a populous diftriCt, where the inhabitants are crowded together, fo 

 as to be immediately under the infpeCtion of thofe who may inflruCt 

 them, the inconveniences are lefs fenfibly felt ; but, in a region, where 

 the population is fcanty, the people can hardly be brought together 

 in any confiderable number, to receive inftruCtion. 



The difficulty will be encreafed, if the crude materials, on which the 

 manufacturer is to work, are not the home produce of the diftriCt, but 

 brought from a diftance, at confiderable expence. No mafter manufac- 

 turer would willingly entruft materials of much value to inexperienced 

 operators, at a diftance from himfelf. He cannot here, as in a more 

 populous diftriCt, give a little at a time, fo as to be no great lofer 

 if the talks are not altogether well done : for the expence of carry- 



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