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their manners and principles. The loss by the trans- 

 portation of commodities across the Atlantic will be 

 made up in happiness and permanence of government. 

 The mol)S of great cities add just so niuch to the sup^ 

 port of pure government, as sores do to the strength of 

 the human body. It is the manners and Sf)irit of a 

 people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degen- 

 eracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart 

 of its laws and constitution. 



QUERY XX. 



A Notice of the commercial productions particular 

 to the state, and of those objects which the iiihabitants 

 are obliged to get from Europe and from other parts of 

 the w(n"l(l ? 



Before the present war we exported, communibus 

 annis, according to the best information I can get, near-* 

 ly as follows : — 



15* 



