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:ing the inhabitants at eight or ten mil- 

 lions, cannot be lefs than 120 or 150 mil- 

 lions. 



Befides all this, the manufactured produce 

 of the Britifh foil, exported to other coun- 

 tries, is very confiderable, and cannot be ea- 

 (ily eftimated ; fo that fome have reckoned 

 the whole produce of our ifland to be no lefs 

 than 200 millions. 



At any rate, we fee, that the natural pro- 

 duce of our foil, according even to a very 

 moderate computation, far exceeds the mofl 

 exaggerated eftimation of the produce and 

 profit of our commerce, fifheries, andmanu- 

 failures. 



Hence, again, it is obvious, how great an 

 object it ought to be with government to en- 

 courage the improvement of our own coun- 

 try as much as poffible, in preference to thefe 

 fecondary objects, which never can give real 

 wealth or liability to a nation. 



Indeed, the proper way of encouraging 

 manufactures is by giving encouragement to 

 agriculture ; for thus, colonies are raifed a- 

 mong ourfelves for the confumpt of them ; 

 an internal commerce is inftituted, which, 



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