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will grow in moil of them without any 

 culture, and the fummers in the mod nor- 

 therly provinces are fufficiently warm j but 

 many of them are fo engaged in the plant- 

 ing of tobacco, that no hands can be 

 fpared, the management of that, and of 

 filkworms, being at the fame time of the 

 year, and thofe who are employed about 

 tobacco are very unfit to attend filkworms j 

 and yet I believe it would fcarce be a lofs 

 to Englandy if the former was fomewhat 

 negle6ted for the fake of the latter. The 

 great quantities of filk which might be 

 imported thence into Ej2gla?tdy the num- 

 ber of hands which it would employ, the 

 various manners in which it might be 

 mixed with the manufacture of wool, and 

 the revenue that might-, in time arife up- 

 on its importation, feem to be things well 

 worth the encouragement of the Englijh ; 

 and in Amef^ica the comfortable fubfiftence 

 and enrichment of many fmail families, 

 by raifmg filk, would be of much more 

 benefit to our colonies, than that the la- 

 bour and indufcry of the poor fhould be 

 laid out only for the advantage of fome 

 rich planters. 



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