Penfyhania, Philadelphia. 53 



The whole extent of the Philadelphia 

 trade may be comprehended from the num- 

 ber of fhips, which annually arrive at and 

 fail from this town. I intend to infert here 

 a table of a few years which I have taken 

 from the gazettes of the town. The ihips 

 coming and going in one year, are to be 

 reckoned from the twenty fifth of March 

 of that year, to the twenty fifth of March of 

 the next. 



But it is much to be feared that the trade 

 of Philadelphia, and of all the Englijh colo- 

 nies, will rather decreafe than encreafe, 

 in cafe no provifion is made to prevent it. 

 I fhall hereafter plainly fhew upon what 

 foundation this decreafe of trade is likely to 

 take place. 



The town not only furnifhes moft of 



the inhabitants of Penfyhania with the 



goods which they want, but numbers of 



D 3 the 



