OF NORFOLK. 143 



Section xxiii. 



COMMERCE; OR A STATEMENT 

 OF EXPORTS. 



JL HE credit of a country is ufually confidered in 

 proportion to its general produce. If its agricul- 

 ture does not produce more, in the whole, than 

 what is fufficient to fupport itfelf, and its own ru- 

 ral trades, it muft evidently be minus in the com- 

 mon fcale of production ; becaufe every country 

 mud at lead look for afhftance from fome clothing 

 manufactory, though foreign luxuries were totally 

 out of the queflion. But if the hufbandry of any 

 particular diflricl can fupport itfelf and its local 

 trades, and furnifli half as much as it confumes, 

 either to encourage manufactures at home, or to 



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fupply foreign markets, it may fairly be denomi- 

 nated a good country. 



That Norfolk will ftand eminently high in re- 

 putation, when viewed in this light, will not ad- 

 mit of a doubt from any perfon who is iuilicicntly 



acquainted 



