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with all the advantages of that to foreign 

 countries, is entirely free from fea-rifk, or the 

 dangers arifing from unhealthful climates- 

 and therefore ought, as far as it can be pufh- 

 ed, to be preferred to the other. 



Mr Knox informs us, in his Tour through 

 Scotland, 1 787, " That the goods manufa&ur- 

 ed in England, and fent to this country, a- 

 mount to no lefs than two millions fterling 

 annually ; and if it was improved according 

 to the plans propofed, the quantity would be 

 more than doubled." He alfo fays, in p. 1 69, 

 " That, in 1 697, the general amount of exports 

 was found to be 3,525,906, of which was 

 fent to Scotland annually, upon an average 

 of years between 1696 and the union of the 

 two kingdoms, to the value of .63,345. 

 Between the year 1 707 and the commence- 

 ment of the laft war, the exports to Scotland 

 had gradually rifen to L. 2,000,000. From 

 thefe calculations it appears, that the exports 

 to Scotland, in the courfe of 80 years, have 

 increafed thirty fold." 



That the produce of Britain fhould now be 

 on the decline, conveys rather a melancholy 

 idea; confidering how fevere a fhock our 



commerce 



