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board all the water they can flow, confiftent with the fall cargo, 

 they depend for a fupply from the heavens, between Lat. 30* and 

 40% and hazard the moft dreadful of deaths, fiiould their ex- 

 pe<ftations be difappointed ; when they arrive in thefe latitudes, 

 they prepare their mats, which they fpread to dired: the deluge 

 of rain into various veflels, and, wonderful to fay, there is not an 

 inftance in which their hopes have failed. 



Manilla is the great magazine of all the goods of India., 

 Cbina^ and Europe, which are laid up here annually to be con- 

 veyed acrofs the Pacific ocean, to fupply the wants or luxuries of 

 the new world. " There are," as the editor of lord Anjon^s voyage 

 informs iis, at p. 237, *' fpices, all forts of Chinefe filks and ma- 

 <* nufadtures, particularly filk ftockhigs, of which I have heard 

 " that no lefs than fifty thoufand pair were the ufual number 

 ** lliipped on board the annual fliip; vaft quantities of Indian 

 *' ftuffs, as callicoes and chintz, which are much worn in A7ne' 

 « rica, together with minuter articles, as goldfmiths work, &:c. 

 " which is principally done at the city of Manilla itfelf by the 

 ** Chinefe ; for it is faid there are at leaft twenty thoufand 

 ** Chinefe who conftan'.ly refiide there, either as fervants, manu- 

 " fa(fturers, or brokers ; all thefe different commodities are col- 

 " ledted at Ma n ilia f thence to be tranfported annually, in one 

 *' or more fhips, to the port of Acapulco in the kingdom of 

 " Mexico l"* 



The return from the new world is only in filver, either in 



fpecie or virgin metal ; the author of Lord Anjon^ voyage, con- 



feffes to only 1,313,843 pieces of eight, and 35,682 ounces of 



virgin filver, or f^.^Qo<poo of our money, having been found in 



6 the 



