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Indies, with flour, corn, bifcuit, timber, 

 tuns, boards, flefh, fifh, butter, and other 

 jrovifions j together with fome of the few 

 fruits that grow here. Many fhips go to 

 Bofion in New England, with corn and 

 flour, and take in exchange, fleflj, butter, 

 timber, diflferent forts of fi{h, and other 

 articles, which they carry further to the 

 Weji Indies. They now and then take rum 

 from thence, which is diftilled there in 

 great quantities, and fell it here with a 

 confiderable advantage. Sometimes they 

 fend yachts with goods from New Tork to 

 Philadelphia, and at other times yachts are 

 fent from Philadelphia to New Tork -, which 

 is only done, as appears from the gazettes, 

 becaufe certain .articles are cheaper at one 

 place than at the other. They fend fhips 

 to Ireland every year, laden with all kinds 

 of WeJi India goods ; but efpecially with 

 linfeed, which is reaped in this province. I 

 have been allured, that in fome years no 

 lefs than ten fhips have been fent to Ireland, 

 laden with nothing but linfeed ; becaufe it 

 is faid the flax in Ireland does not afford 

 good feed. But probably the true reafon is 

 this : the people of Ireland, in order to 

 have the better flax, make ufe of the plant 

 before the feed is ripe, and therefore are 

 obliged to fend for foreign feed -, and hence 



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