A. D. 1722. 12F 



celain not being found out till this year. This able author adds, that 

 the invention of the Saxon porcelain was owing to alchymy. 



In the fame year Captain Scroggs, from Churchill-river fort in 

 Hudfon's Bay, failed upon the difcovery of a north-wefl paffage from 

 that bay to China, 8cc. as far as latitude 64° 56', where, as he reported, 

 the land fell off to the fouthward of weft : fuch of his people, as went up to 

 the top of a mountain, reported, that they faw nothing to obftruft their 

 going farther. This was a lame account, (fays Mr Ellis's voyage, annis 

 1746 — 7) for why then did he not proceed* ? 



Copper ore having been lately found in the province of New- York ; 

 it was now, by an ac1: [8 Geo. I, c. 18] to prevent the clandeftine run- 

 ning of goods, &c. made an enunierated commodity ; i. e. it was made 

 liable to the like rellraint of being firfl landed in fome port of Great 

 Britain, as fugar, tobacco, &c. are, before being re-exported. The antient 

 Peruvians had the ule of copper tools, before they were conquered by 

 the Spaniards ; but this was the firft difcovery of copper in any of the 

 Britilli colonies of America. 



The vafl: increaie of buildings in the great weftern fuburbs of Lon- 

 don requiring a greater lupply of frefli water than the prefent works 

 could furnifli, an a6t of parliament, of the 8th year of King George T, 

 for better fupplying the city and liberties of Weftminfter and parts 

 adjacent with water, authorized the Cheliea water company, new- 

 ly ereded, to dig baions, refervoirs, &c. for bringing water from the 

 river Thames to a place near Cheliea, and to convey the fame (by an 

 ingenious engine) to another refervoir in Hyde-park, whence it is con- 

 veyed in pl]x's to fcveral ftrccts and houfes : and the crown was em- 

 ])owered to incorporate the undertakers, as was accordingly done in this 

 lame year. 



The filk manufadure of England being brought to great perfedion 

 in all its branches. In as to equal the finefl: fabrications of any foreign 

 nation, the Britllb legilkuure now judged it proper to enacT; new encou- 

 ragements to lo noble a manufadure, by an adl [3 Geo. 1, c. 15] for 

 encouraging the filk manufadures of this kingdom, and for promoting 

 its exportation to foreign parts, by granting the following bounties 

 thereon for three years to come, viz. 



For ribands and ftufFs of lilk only, tor each pound avoirdupois Lo 3 o 

 Silks and ribands of filk mixed with gold or filver - 040 



Silk ftocklngs, gloves, fringes, laces, ftitching or fewing filk 010 

 Stuffs of filk and grogram-yarn - - - -008 



Silk flulTs nilxed with Incle or cotton - - - 010 



Stuffs of filk and worf^ed - -- - -006 



* Scroggs was not very anxious for difcovcring a paffiigc. Sie Fotjiir^s Voyages in the Nirlh^. 

 ^.387 nf En^lijh Iranjljlion. M. 



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