New York. 2 of 



with flour packed up in tuns; and alfo with great 

 quantities of linfeed. New Tork likewife exports 

 fome flefh and other provifions out of its own 

 province, but they are very few ; nor is the quan- 

 tity of peafe, which the people about Albany 

 bring, much greater. Iron however may be had 

 more plentifully, as it is found in feveral parts of 

 this province, and is of a coniiderable goodnefs ; 

 but all the other products of this country are of 

 i^fle account. 



MOST of the wine, which is drank here and 

 in the other colonies, is brought from the Ifle of 

 Madeira, and is very ftrong and fiery. 



No manufactures of note have as yet been ef- 

 tabliihedhere ; at prefent they get all manufac- 

 tured goods, fuch as woollen and linen cloth, 

 &c. f/om England, and efpecially from London. 



TBE river Hudfon is very convenient for the 



erce of this city ; as it is navigable for near 



an h ndred and fifty Englifo miks up the coun- 



id falls into the bay not far from the town, 



on its weftern fide. During eight months of the 



r this river is full of yachts, and other greater 



i lefler veffek, either going to New Tork or 

 returning from thence, laden either with inland 

 or foreign goods. 



I CANNOT make a juft eftimate of the fhips 

 that annually come to this town or fail from it. 

 But I have found, by the Penfyhania gazettes, 

 that from the firft of December in 1729, to the 

 fifth of December in the next year, 2 i i fhips en- 

 tered the port of New Tork> and 222 cleared it; 

 and iince that time there has been a great in- 

 creafe of trade here. 



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