Travels Through North America 



more.* They ship also for the Madeiras, the 

 Straits, and the West Indies, several articles, such 

 as grain, pork, lumber, and cider: to Great Britain, 

 bar-iron, indigo, and a small quantity of ginseng, 

 though of an inferior quality; and they clear out one 

 year with another about f ton of shipping. 



Their manufactures are very inconsiderable. They 

 make a kind of cotton cloth, with which they clothe 

 themselves in common, and call after the name of 

 their country; and some inconsiderable quantities 

 of linen, hose, and other trifling articles: but nothing 

 to deserve attention. 



The government is a royal one: the legislature 

 consisting of a governor appointed by the king; a 

 council of twelve persons, under the same nomina- 

 tion; and a house of burgesses, or representatives, 

 of a hundred and eight or ten members, elected by 

 the people; two for each county, and one for each 

 of the following places, viz. the College of William 

 and Mary, Jamestown, Norfolkborough, and Wil- 

 liamsburg, Each branch has a negative. All laws, 

 in order to be permanent, must have the king's ap- 

 probation; nor may any be enacted, which are re- 

 pugnant to the laws of Great Britain. 



The courts of judicature are either county, or 

 general courts. The county courts are held monthly 



* In the year 1758, it is said that seventy thousand hogsheads 

 were exported. 



f See Appendix, No. 2. 



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