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pend on procuring them from other coun- 

 tries, with the produce merely of her own 

 lands ? have we not *' room for looms and 

 the various arts ?" Why then should not 

 this nation, in its present youthful vigour, 

 begin to apportion her employment be-- 

 tweenhusbandry and manufactories? which 

 in experience prove to be so coincident, so 

 promotive of wealth and independence, as 

 to have rendered Britain rich in :dl com- 

 forts, with a purse powerful in war ; but 

 which some on both sides of the Atlantic 

 think has unvv^arily admitted of a degree 

 of pride in her, that, according to what is 

 common to that vice, bodes an approaching 

 reverse in the current of her affairs. Be- 

 sides, in the course of a great influx of 

 emigrants to America, many, if not the 

 greater number, are mechanics. When 

 these land on the sea^coast, and find little 

 or no employm.ent for them in the way of 

 their profession, will they generally go to 

 country labour ? Past experience says they 

 will recross the Atlantic, or travel farther 



