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four feet. This is an inconvenience, which, no doubt, would ren- 

 der feme expence and exertion of induftry neceffary, to prepare and 

 eftablifli docks, for careening men of war ; but it does not, by any 

 means, prefent infuperable difficulties. The want of fufficient rife and 

 fall of the tide, to bear in a large flrip, and afterwards leave her 

 dry, might be remedied, by digging docks, to a fufficient depth ; from 

 whence the water might be difcharged, by pumps, and the fteam- 

 engine. 



The eflablilhment at Kinfale, is wholly unworthy of notice, as to 

 extent or utility, but, were eftabliflaments, on fuch an extended fcale, 

 as I mention, fixed for the building, and repairs of fliips of war, — 

 one in the fouth — another in the weft, and a third, in the north of 

 Ireland; great advantages would refult, to the navy of England ; and 

 the induftry of the people of this country would be invigorated, by 

 new objefts, and new incentives. The rich lands of the fouth would 

 be rendered produftive of the higheft advantages, of which they are 

 capable ; the people would be employed, on new objefts of hufban- 

 dry, and in new branches of manufafture, at prefent neglefted. 



Sect. ii. 



Of the Woollen Manufadure. 



If the plan of encouraging a manufafture, by bounties, can be pru- 

 dent, or eligible in any cafe, it mufl be particularly fo, with refpeft, 

 to the woollen manufafture of Ireland. This is a manufacture, in which 

 nature feems to have deftined this country to excel, when flie gave it paftures 

 and climate, peculiarly adapted for the breed and nourifhment of flieep. 



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