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three points: to provide an asylum for the poor debtor 

 and persecuted Protestant ; to erecl a silk, wine, and 

 drug -growing colony : and to relieve the mother 

 country of an overburdened population." It was 

 estimated thai the Bilks imported into England from 

 Italian, French, Chinese and other sources, amounted 

 t«t fiv<' hundred thousand pounds a year at the time 

 of the colonizatioD of Georgia, about IT:;'-' to 17:;.'.. 

 "With this Georgia will abundantly supply us," the 

 account of the secretary of the trustees runs, "if we 

 are aot wanting to ourselves, and do not aeglect the 

 opportunity which Providence has tin-own into our 

 hands. The saving of this five hundred thousand 

 pounds per annum is not all; bul our supplying our- 

 selves with raw silk from Georgia carries this further 

 advantage along with it. that it will provide a new or 

 additional employment for at leasl twenty thousand 

 people in Georgia, for about four months in the year, 

 during the silk season; and at Least twenty thousand 

 more of our poor here, all the year round, in working 

 the raw silk, and preparing such manufactures as we 

 send in return; or to purchase the said raw silk in 

 Georgia, to which country our merchants will trade to 

 much greater advantage than they can expecl t<> do m 

 Italy." The first colonial seal represented silk-worms 

 upon one of its fac< 



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