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markets in the Levant, and many other fouthern countries, 

 to which we can ncfw export few or no dcths at all. 



3. That not one ounce of Englijh luool can be employed ia 

 the fabrication of out fnej} cloths^ either for our own wear, 

 or for foreign fale. 



4. That though it be ftill often afTerted in the moft bare- 

 faced manner, in contradiction to thefe undeniable fafts, and 

 in defiance of common fenfe, that Engli£h clothing wool is 

 coveted abroad, for the purpofe of perfe<Sting their cloths, 

 and that other nations, particularly the French, never can 

 make fine cloths without the aid of Englifh wool to mix ia 

 their manufadlures, yet fuch affertions are falfe, ground- 

 lefs, and abfurd. Can any thing be more ridiculous, than 

 to hear perfons ferioufly maintain that Enghfli wool is ne- 

 cefTary in France for- perfecting a manufaClure, in which the 

 people of England dare not venture to employ an ounce of 

 that wool v^ithout debafing it ? or that the French cannot 

 make^;;^ cloth for want of materials^ when they have eafier 

 accefs than ourfelves to buy the very fame materials of which 

 we ourfelves are compelled to make our beft cloths ? They 

 have even finer wool of their own growth, fit for that pur- 

 pofe, than could be had in England. 



5. It is a certain faft, that the only kind of wool in Eng- 

 land, which can now lay claim to any kind of fuperiority 

 over that of other nations, is not the fliort carding wool 

 which was of old fo highly prized, and fo much fought af- 

 ter by foreign nations, but a kind of wool of a longer ftaple, 

 fit for being combed, and which can be only employed, not 

 in the manufacture of cloth, but of other lighter fabrics of 

 various denominations. 



From thefe faCts thus accurately compared, we ave led 

 to fee that the following inferences are undeniable. 



I. Since it is clear that Britain did aCtually pofTefs very 

 fine clothing wool in great abundance in and before the 

 reign of Elijabethj which evidently does not now exifl in 



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