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Miich time and materials will be loft, in the eftablifhmcnt of a new ma- 

 nufafture. The undertaker will be difcouraged ; (if his capital is fraall, 

 wholly difabled ;) from the profecution of his defign, by thofe expenfive 

 trials, and probationary lofles, that are incident to every new fpeculation. 

 If, in the profecution of his fcheme, he depends on his own knowledge 

 of the art, and ventures to employ unlkilful or unexperienced workmen ; 

 his views will be eounterafted, his materials wafted and deftroyed, by their 

 ignorance and aukwardnefs. Perpetually thwarted and tormented, by their 

 obftinacy and unfkilfullnefs, he will relinquifti the undertaking, in difguft.— 

 Should he import fkilful and experienced workmen, from the country 

 where the manufafture is beft underftood ; he will be perpetually de- 

 frauded by them, or if this fhould not be the cafe, yet, he will be com- 

 pleatly in their power, and fubjeft to all their infolence, and cxaclion. He 

 will fear to exafperate them, left they ftiould abandon him, after all his 

 expence, in building ftorehoufes, and workfliops, erefting machinery, 

 and providing materials. If, wearied out, with their turbulence and extor- 

 tions, he fliould return to his original defign ; and attempt to train young 

 perfons, in the art, who are as yet ignorant ; in this he will be oppofed, by 

 the malignity and jealoufy of the old workmen ; and he will be driven, at 

 the fame time, to contend with the aukwardnefs and ignorance of the new. 

 He will be difcountenanced and difcouraged, by the prejudices of the pub- 

 lic, infeparable attendants on new undertakings. It will be long, before 

 the workmen will acquire fkill, celerity, and addrefs, fo, as to expedite 

 their work, in the complete manner, that is neceflary to cheapnefs, and 

 confequently to the poffeflion of a market ; and it will be yet longer, be- 

 fore the manufadlure will have acquired the fuperior polifh, and accurate 

 manner of finifliing, which befpeak the niafterly workman, and are the 

 refult of innumerable effays, in the courfe of much time, and experience, 

 forming the eye and hand of the manufafturer, to juft precifion, and neat- 

 nefs of execution. What I have faid in the foregoing paragraphs is, on 

 the fuppofition, that the capital of the country is inadequate to the fupport 

 of the old, and the eftablifhment of the new manufadure. In which cafe, 



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