19 3 November 1748. 



.THE common difference between high ind low 

 water, at .New York, amounts to about fix feet, 

 'Englifo meafure. But at a certain time in every 

 month, when the tide fiows more than com- 

 morrly, the difference in the height of no water 

 is ieven feet. 



NEW YORK probably carries on z -Xr 



tenfive commerce, than any town in the Etigli/h 

 North American provinces; at leaft it rnay.be 

 faid to equal them : Eofton and Philadelphia how- 

 ever come very near up to it. The trade of ffew 

 York extends to many places; and it is faid they 

 fend more {hips from thence to London, than 

 they do from Philadelphia. They exnort to that 

 capital all the various forts of ikins which they buy 

 of the Indians, fugar, logwood, and other < lying 

 woods, rum, mahogany, and many other goods 

 which are the produce of the Wejl Indies; together 

 with all the fpecie which they get in thc-courfe of 

 trade. Every year they build feveral fhips here, 

 which are fent to London, and there .(old; and of 

 late years they have {hipped a quantity of iron to 

 England. In return for thefe, they import from 

 London {luffs, and every other article ' of Englijh 

 growth or manufacture, together wkli all forts 

 of foreign goods. England, and .especially Lon- 

 don, profits knmenfely by its trade with the Ame- 

 rican colonies; for not only New Tork, 'but" like- 

 v/ife all the other Englifh towns on. the continent, 

 import fo many articles from England, that all 

 their fpecie, together with the goods whicli they 

 get in other countries, rnuft altogether go to Old 

 England, in order to pay the amount, to which 

 they are however inefficient. From hence it 



appears 



