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of her fartners ^nd tradesmen, who mu- 

 tually supply each other's wants : and she 

 furnishes foreign countries with a prodigi- 

 ous overplus of the fruits of her manufac- 

 tories and commerce ; which has rendered 

 her rich, powerful, and less dependent 

 than other nations. The fifty or sixty 

 ship loads of wheat which she buys more 

 than she sells, are inconsiderable when 

 compared with the great profits of her im- 

 mense commerce and manufactures. The 

 yearly buying more bread from abroad 

 than she sells, assures to her husbandmen 

 a constant demand and full price for the 

 corn produced by their lands > and this is 

 a great encouragement to a vigorous culti- 

 vation of them ; as it gives an income to 

 the industrious countryman, independent 

 of uncertain demand by foreign countries. 

 A statute of the Parliament of Great 

 Britain, of no long standing, compels the 

 most minute entry to be made in the Bri- 

 tish custom-house, of every sort of corn, 

 as well what is imported as exported. 



