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oil made from the fifli, the whole fum may be faid to be gained out of 

 the fea. By this fifhery, and their other commerce, they are faid to 

 employ at leaft 6000 feamen : and adding to the above fum the freight 

 and commiflion, all earned by our own people, and reckoned at one 

 third more, the whole will be Li72,5oo, all remitted to Great Britain. 

 There is, moreover, their whale fifhery, employing about 1300 tons of 

 Shipping. To Europe, alfo, and to the Weft-Indies, they fend great 

 quantities of lumber of all forts, and of provifions, the fame as men- 

 tioned under the head of Pennfylvania, the produce whereof is likewife 

 remitted to England. They alfo trade to the bay of Honduras for log- 

 wood. And as they build fliipping very cheap, they can afford to fell 

 their lumber, &c. to our fugar colonies at a lower rate than any other 

 people can. Many of thofe New-England fhips are loaded from the 

 fugar iflands diredly for England. From New-England, alfo, we have 

 the largert mafts in the world for our navy. From thence, alfo, as from 

 our other continental colonies.^ we receive all the gold and filver that 

 they can fpare, none of which ever returns to them : for we give them 

 in exchange all manner of wearing apparel, woollen, brafs, iron, and 

 linen manufadures, Eaft-India goods, &c. in all, to the value of 

 L40o,ooo yearly. 



Newfoundland, though very thinly inhabited by us, is neverthelefs 

 of vaft benefit to us: we make, one year with another, about 200,000 

 quintals of fifh there; which, at 12/ per quintal, comes to Li 20,000 

 fterling ; which may be reckoned all clear gain to this kingdom, the 

 oil of the firti paying for fait, &c. As this gain is obtained by the mere 

 labour of our people, and as the fifhery is of great ufe in breeding able 

 feamen, the natural ftrength of this kingdom ; as, moreover, we have 

 from Newfoundland great quantities of peltry, i. e. the furs and fkins 

 of deer, fox, otter, feal, minx, and bear, with fome beaver, we ought 

 therefor greatly to prize Newfoundland. 



The Hudfon's-bay trade employs generally three fhips from London, 

 carrying thither coarfe dufHe cloth or blanketing, powder and fhot, 

 fpirits, &c. and bringing home vaft quantities of peltry of many kinds, 

 bed-feathers, whale-fins, &c. And as that fmall company makes a di- 

 \'idend of 8, or formerly 10, percent on their capital of about Li 00,000, 

 befides the employment they give to our people in fitting out and load- 

 ing thofe fhips, it may truely be faid to be an advantageous commerce, 

 proportioned to its bulk. 



The Bermuda iflands were formerly efteemed extremely fertile : but 

 they feem now to be wearing out apace. In Queen Anne's war, they 

 are faid to have had above 100 brigantines and floops, though now not 

 above half that number. They take of us whatever neceffaries they 

 have occafion for, and pay us in money, which they get by trading 



