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fhube coarser or finer in every northern country, 
wherein 'the climate requires furs. 
I must own however that | am speaking here, ¢! 
mean, with regard to the fabrication of fheep skins 
with the wvol on them in Great Britain,) with little 
or no knowledge of the subject ; as the price of wool, 
hides &c. there, must ditermine the expediency of 
the measure : but if I am to judge of the succefs of 
‘one Britifh manufactory by that of another, with 
pofsibly 50 per cent against it, on the side of the 
Rufsians, my speculation w:ll not appear without 
some foundation. I allude to the curious article of 
iron purchased originally from this country, and 
afterwards sold here manufactured, after paying so 
many duties and charges on both sides the water, 
cheaper than the natives can aiford it; nay this is not 
confined to the finer articles, for even Britifh iron 
railing, is sold in Petersburgh cheaper aad nea er 
than it can be made in this city from the original 
iron, although the Rufsians have so great 4 sum in 
their favour, if all the charges are reckoned up, from 
the exportation of the rough, to the sale of the ma- 
nufactured iron. Surely I say, judging from~such 
an example of the wondertul effects of 1-dustry and 
fkill, one would think, that theep skins, the produce 
of Great Britain, might at least come to this market 
with the advantage which superior skill and drefsing 
would give them, over the native manufactortes, 
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; and that alone, in my opinion, were even the prices 
_ equal, would be sufficient to give them such a pre-= 
_ ference, as would send them through all the north ; 
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