Penjyhania, Philadelphia. 51 



England, in different years, I mall here 

 infert an extract from the Englijh cuftom- 

 houfe books, which I got from the engi- 

 neer, Leiois Evans, at Philadelphia, and 

 which will fufficiently anfwer the purpofe. 

 . This gentleman had defired one of his 

 friends in London to fend him a compleat 

 account of all the goods {hipped from 

 England to Penfyhania in feveral years. 

 He got this account, and though the goods 

 are not enumerated in it, yet their value 

 in money is calculated. Such extracts from 

 the cuftom-houfe books have been made 

 for every North-American province, in or- 

 der to convince the Englijh parliament, 

 that thofe provinces have taken greater 

 quantities of the goods in that kingdom, 

 ever fince they have turned their money 

 into bills. 



I have taken the copy from the original 

 itfelf, and it is tobeobferved that it begins 

 with the chriftmas of the year 1722, and 

 ends about the fame time of the year 1747. 

 In the firft column is the value of the 

 foreign goods, the duty for which has al- 

 ready been paid in England. The fecond 

 column (hews the value of the goods ma- 

 nufactured in England and exported to 

 Penfyhania. And in the laft column thefe 

 two fums are added together, but at the 

 bottom each of the columns is caft up. 



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