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they trade to Surinam in the like manner, and to the French part of Hif- 

 paniola, as alfo to the other French fugar iflands, whence they bring 

 back melafles, and alfo feme money. From Jamaica they fometimes 

 return with all money and no goods, becaufe the rum and melaffes are 

 fo dear there. And all the money they can get from all parts, as alfo 

 fugar, rice, tar, pitch, &c. is brought to England to pay for the manu- 

 factures, &c. they carry home from us ; which have not for many years 

 pafl been lefs than Li 50,000 per annum. They trade to our provinces 

 of New-England, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, and to all the iflands 

 in the Weft- Indies, except the Spanifli ones, as alio to the Canaries, 

 Madeira, and the Azores ; likewife to Newfoundland, for fiih, which 

 they carry to Spain, Portugal, and up the Mediterranean, and remit the 

 money to England, which, one way or other, may amount to L6o,oco 

 yearly ; but, without their trade to the French and Dutch colonies in 

 the Weft-Indies, they could not remit fo much to England : neither 

 could they carry on their trade with the Indians, if they did not take 

 off the rum and melafles, as well as the fugars of thofe colonies, in part 

 of payment of the cargoes they carry thither. 



New-York and the two Jerfeys have the lame commodities as Penn- 

 fylvania has for exportation, except they do not build fo many fliips. 

 New-York alfo has lately found in her bowels the richeft copper mine 

 that perhaps was ever heard of; great quantities of which have been 

 lately brought to England. This, and the iron mines of Virginia, 

 Maryland, and Pennfylvania, might be brought to fupply Great Britain 

 and Ireland with all we want of thofe metals ; which, too, would be 

 paid for with our own manufac1;ures, inftead of paying L :;oo,ooo of 

 our cafli for thofe metals to Sweden, &c. New-York, it is true, fends 

 fewer fliips to Englan-d than fome other colonies do, but thofe they do 

 fend are richer, as dealing more in furs and fl-iins with the Indians ; and 

 they are at leaft of equal advantage to us with Pennfylvania, both as to 

 the money they fend us, and the manulaclures they take of us. I he 

 city of New-York is a moft delightful place, and has near as many in- 

 habitants as Philadelphia has; iuid its country is one of the plealanieft 

 in the univcrfe. 



The foil of New-England is not unlike that of Great Britain. It has 

 at Icaft 1 20,000 white inhabitants *, employing about 40000 tons of 

 fliipping in then- foreign and coafting trades, and above 60c fail ot fliips, 

 floops, Sec. about one half of which fliipping trades to Europe. I'heir 

 fiflierics have been reckoned annually to produce 230,000 quintals of* 

 dried fifli, which, being fcnt to Portugal, Spain, and up the Mediterra- 

 nean, yield 12/ per quintal, being 138,000 fterling. And as their filt, 

 runi, and uiel.ifles, as alfo their pro\ilions and utenfi's, are pu, dialed 

 for the reiufe fifli, which is not fit for the European market, and for the 



• He means here only Maffacliufets-bay. A, 4. 



