Penfylvania, Philadelphia. 53 



The whole extent of the Philadelphia 

 trade may be comprehended from the num- 

 ber of mips, which annually arrive at and 

 fail from this town. I intend to infcrt here 

 a table of a few years which I have taken 

 from the gazettes of the town. The mips 

 coming and going in one year, are to be 

 reckoned from the twenty fifth of March 

 of that year, to the twenty fifth of March of 

 the next. 



The Year. Ships arrived. Ships failed. 



1735 199 212. 



1740 307 208. 



1741 292 309. 



1744 229 271. 



1745 280 301. 



1746 273 293. 



But it is much to be feared that the trade 

 of Philadelphia, and of all the Engli/h colo- 

 nies, will rather decreafe than encreafe, 

 in cafe no provifion is made to prevent it. 

 I mall hereafter plainly mew upon what 

 foundation this decreafe of trade is likely to 

 take place. 



The town not only furnifhes mod of 

 the inhabitants of Penfylvania with the 

 goods which they want, but numbers of 



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