40 September 1748. 



BUT to fliew more exactly, what the town 

 and province have imported from England^ in 

 different years, I mall here infert an extraft from 

 the ULngKfh cuftom-houfe books, which I got from 

 the engineer Lewis Evans, at Philadelphia. This 

 gentleman had defired one of his friends in London 

 to fend him a complete account of all the goods 

 fhipped from England to Penfylvania in feveral 

 years. He got this account, and though the 

 goods are not enumerated in it, yet their value in 

 money is calculated. Such extrafts from the 

 cuftom-houfe books have been made for every 

 North-American province, in order to convince 

 the Engli/h Parliament, that thofe provinces have 

 taken greater quantities of the goods in that king- 

 dom ever fince they have turned their money into 

 bills. 



I HAVE taken the copy from the original it- 

 felf ; and it is to be obferved that it begins with 

 the Chriftmas of the year 1722, and ends about 

 the fame time of the year 1747. In the firft co- 

 lumn is the value of the foreign goods, the duty 

 for which has already been paid in England. The 

 fecond column (hews the value of the goods ma- 

 nufadured in England and exported to Penfylva- 

 ma. And in the laft column thefe two fums are 

 added together, but at the bottom each of the 

 columns is caft up. 



BUT this table does not include the goods 

 which are annually fhipped in great quantities 

 to Penjyhania from Scotland %.&& Ireland, among 

 which is a great quantity of linen. 



The 



