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LIX) For making foap. 

 LX) For making Joppa and Caftile foap. 

 LXI) For making Manchefter fluffs, cottons, and tapes. 

 LXII) For a grand difpenfary, three millions. 

 LXTII) For a wheel for a perpetual motion. 

 LXIV) For loading and entering goods at the cuftom-houfe. 

 LXV) For trading in, and improving, certain commodities of this 



kingdom, three millions. 

 LXVI) For a trade to Barbary. (Jczreel Jones's) 

 LXVII) For making pafteboard and packing-paper. 

 LXVIII) Another for the paper manufadure. 

 LXIX) For making ftarch. 

 LXX) For building and rebuilding houfes tliroughout England, 



three millions. 

 LXXI) For furnifhing funerals. 

 LXXII) Another for buying and felling lands, and lending money 



at interefl, five millions. 

 LXXIII) Loan offices for encouraging the induftrious. 

 LXXIV) For the clothing, felt, and pantile, trades. 

 LXXV) Infuring, and increafing, children's fortunes. 

 LXXVI) For importing oils and other materials for the woollen 



manufadures. 

 LXXVIl) For paying pcnfions to widows, &c. at a fmall difcount, 



two millions. 

 LXXVIII) For employing poor artificers, furnifhing merchants, &c. 

 with watches. 

 LXXIX) For infuring maflers from the loflcs fuflained by fervants, 



three millions. 

 LXXX) Timber from Wales. 



Although this be tlie largefl colledion of the bubbles of this year, 

 yet I am ])errLiaded there are fome omitted, which I have not been able 

 to recoiled: fome may poffibly think this coUedion of them too prolix; 

 yet I apprehend, that to many readers they may be a curiofity, and to 

 poflerity an ufeful memento: and it is even pofTible, that out of fo many 

 as confiderably above 200 fuch abortive ones, fome improving genius 

 may hereafter luckily render fome of them pradicublc and ufeful ; as 

 has been the cafe already with rcfped to the tinned-plate manufadure, 

 &c. yet of all the above numerous projeds, only four, properly fpeaking, 

 exifl at prefent, viz. the two alVarance companies, by legal new char- 

 tx^rs, the York-buildings company, (if il mnv be faid iiill to cxiil) and 

 the Englilh copper company, its charter being found \c^^\\. 



Many of the above bubbles were indeed fo nonfenfical and ablurd, ap- 

 pearing even from their very titles, as it might be imagined could only 

 draw in the moft ignorant part of the people ; yet even thole had a very 

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