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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 

 clothing, 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 soo^ as 

 they can, to the raising raw materials, and 

 exchange them for finer manufactures 

 than they ^re able to execute themselves, 

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