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able to give thee satisfaction: our clay is of 

 a sandy nature, and no method of tem- 

 pering or burning it, will make it equal 

 to the English earthenware." Mr. Boad- 

 ley recommends manufacturing coarse 

 woollen goods, which appears to be right; 

 but Mr. Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia, 

 says: — " Theyneverhad an interior trade of 

 any importance ; and their exterior com- 

 merce has suffered very much from the be- 

 ginning of their contest. During the time 

 they manufactured within their own fa- 

 milies the most necessary articles of 

 clcTthing, those of cotton bore some com- 

 parison with the same kinds of manu- 

 facture in Europe ; but those of wool, flax, 

 and hemp, were very coarse, unsightly, and 

 unpleasant: and such is their attachment to 

 agriculture, and such their preference for 

 foreign manufactures, that, be it wise or 

 unwise, the people will return, as soon as 

 they can, to the raising raw materials, and 

 exchange them for finer manufactures 

 than they are able to execute themselves. 



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