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XXII) For the corn trade. 



XXIII) For drying malt with hot air. 



XXIV) For improving malt liquors, four millions 

 XXV) For recovering feamen's wages. 



XXVI) For working tin plates, or whited iron plates*. 

 XXVII) Harbours and rivers. 



1, For repairing Morifon's haven. 



2, For an engine to take up ballaft. 



3, For making the river Dee, in Chefhire, navigable. 



4, Ditto for the river Douglas. 



XXVIII) For cleanfing and paving London Itreets, two millions 

 XXIX) Supplies for London, viz. 



I, For fupplying London with fca-coal, three millions 



2, with cattle. 



3, with hay and ftraw. 



4, paving its ftreets, two millions 



XXX) Weft's permits for buying and felling flocks. 

 XXXI) Hemp, flax, and their manufadures, viz. 



I , For planting hemp and flax in Scotland and Ireland, and 

 making fail-cloth, cordage, &c. 

 2, and 3, Two other different fail-cloth fubfcriptions. 



4, For the Holland and fail-cloth manufadures. 



5, For the cambric and lawn manufactures. 



6, Sail-cloth in Ireland. 



XXXII) For the filk and cotton manufactures, viz. 



1 , For raifing filk-worms. 



2, Another for planting mulberry trees, and breeding filk- 



worms in Chelfca park, by Sir Richard Manningham, 

 where 2Cco of thofe trees were adually planted, and many 

 large expenfive edifices were ereded ; the remains where- 

 of are fcarcely now to be feen. 



3, For making muflin. 



4, For improving the cotton, and the filk and cotton, manu- 



fadures. 



5, Another for improving the filk manufadure. 

 XXXIIl) Metals, mines, and minerals, viz. 



1, For making iron and flecl in Great Britain, four millions. 



2, For improving Englifli iron and fteel. 



3, For extrading filver from lead. 



4, For improving the tin mines of Cornwall and Devonflurc. 



5, For tranlmuting quick-filver into a malleable and fine metal. 



6, For fmelting lead. 



* This manvifafltirf, whi'cli we formcilj' had entirely from Germany, lias fiiicc the year 17:0 been 

 brought to Ruwt pei fcdion in Monmouthfhire and clfewlicrc in England, the Englilli tin-plates beinj 

 now more duraUle and beautiful than any foreign ones. A. 



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