Pennsylvania 



which are Quakers; there are very few negroes or 

 slaves. 



The trade of Pennsylvania is surprisingly extensive, 

 carried on to Great Britain, the West Indies, every 

 part of North America, the Madeiras, Lisbon, Cadiz, 

 Holland, Africa, the Spanish Main, and several other 

 places; exclusive of what is illicitly carried on to 

 Cape Francois, and Monte Christo. Their exports 

 are provisions of all kinds, lumber, hemp, flax, flax- 

 seed, iron, furs, and deer-skins. Their imports, 

 English manufactures, with the superfluities and 

 luxuries of life. By their flag-of-truce trade, they 

 also get sugar, which they refine and send to Europe. 



Their manufactures are very considerable. The 

 Germantown thread-stockings are in high estima- 

 tion; and the year before last, I have been credibly 

 informed, there were manufactured in that town 

 alone above 60,000 dozen pair. Their common 

 retail price is a dollar per pair. 



The Irish settlers make very good linens: some 

 woolens have also been fabricated, but not, I believe, 

 to any amount. There are several other manufac- 

 tures, viz. of beaver hats, which are superior in good- 

 ness to any in Europe, of cordage, linseed-oil, starch, 

 myrtle-wax and spermaceti candles, soap, earthen 

 ware, and other commodities. 



The government of this province is a proprietary 

 one. The legislature is lodged in the hands of a 

 governor, appointed (with the king's approbation) 



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