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terials would by industry be multiplied to five, ten, 

 and many times to twenty times more in the value 

 being wrought. 



7. And of all sorts of thrift for the public good, 

 I would above all others commend to your care the 

 encouragement to be given to husbandry, and the 

 improving of lands for tillage; there is no such 

 usury as this. The king cannot enlarge the bounds 

 of these islands, which make up his empire, the ocean 

 being the uriremoveable wall which incloseth them ; 

 but he may enlarge and multiply the revenue thereof 

 by this honest and harmless way of good husbandry. 



8. A very great help unto trade are navigable 

 rivers ; they are so many indraughts to attain 

 wealth ; wherefore by art and industry let them be 

 made ; but let them not be turned to private profit, 



9. In the last place, I beseech you, take into your 

 serious consideration that Indian wealth, which this 

 island and the seas thereof excel in, the hidden and 

 rich treasure of fishing. Do we want an example to 

 follow ? I may truly say to the English, &quot; Go to the 

 pismire, thou sluggard.&quot; I need not expound the 

 text : half a day s sail with a good wind, will shew 

 the mineral and the miners. 



10. To regulate all these it will be worthy the care 

 of a subordinate council, to whom the ordering of 

 these things may be committed, and they give an 

 account thereof to the state.] 



VIII. I COME to the last of those things which 

 I propounded, which is, the court and curiality. 



