a 
sateneiionc’ ails viz . 2 pond weight of ie poano 
oe 
the catalogue of Britith m nufa 
he — following 3 6 ee black-lead, fugar, 
‘thre » brandy, broad cloth, blankets, “du a 
anne, PeEveiee buttons; fifh-hooks, Grectteels, files, gun 
nts, yafn, mittens, handkerchiefs, hats, hawk-bells, kn Sal 
sce-chillels, looking-glaffes; needles, met-lines, rings, runlets, 
{word-blades, fpoons, irts, fhoes, ui ckir ngs, fafhes, w rorited, 
thiinbles; tobaccé-boxes, tongs, trunks, wine, &¢. &c.’. 
This year, 1730; the company imported 11,040 coat and 
damaged do otter {kins ; fe) 
fkins-; 540 wookverin -4oo ‘black bear fkins ; 190 wolves 
{kins ;;and 30 wood- fhocks. In 1737, the Bar ae ex- 
ported . the a of 4r2al. 18s. ollowin 
The. fame nue gives the following: arene it 
om mapany © Seabee bit 17405 
O ns-of all aaa 
of 
Ze 17,780 
b 
weight. 
and 120 loos. of whale oil.’ -F 
as there ‘are two fales every year, and the company referves 
three-fifths-of es beaver fkins for their pot fale, but-no 
other’ fkins; then the fecond fale’ muft have. had 26,670 
1-bo an the. fales- muft have furnifhed 4424.50 
beaver fl . He -has alfo given thé pe s entire 
fale for oe year 1743» a ih the prices affixed, viz 
££ sd 
ee 50 Beaver-tkins, fold for - 9780 40 
12,370 Martens {kins, do. 4242 7 0 
. 2,360 Damaged do. do. - - 442 10 0 
590, Otter tkins, - do. - 413. 0 0 
:850 Cat kins, * do. | - 413 00. 
260, ee do. do. - 52°00 
320. Fox ve - - 200 00 
600. ‘Woslreia le - 205 0 O 
170 - - 27 120, 
320 Black best, - i ‘368 00 
1580 Wrolve - 1580 90 
270. Da. denayed and ee - 123 15 0 
. 40 ‘Woodfhock {kin 22 60 
o Mink fk - - 1100 
ey ‘Raccoon cee _ _ 0160 
“420 Squirrel § Om ~ “2 09 
a pedal ole) 
ae 
a 
-whale-fins 8, +23: ‘catks, of wile ol and 8 pound of weg ‘ d, 
paka. 
B 
Aid i in Maach fale, 40,125. 5 beavers ” ee. . : 8 
Dnvalued yg00d, about = ee 400 0 0 
‘itsLamoun of the trade in 43 2 a 331396: 0. 0 
wee pound eig 
weltward to China 
vibes the ae has «brought to light more particulars: for 
e illuftration of this fubjeCt, than. either the company 
would have been ee or public could have oan 
them to communicate. Upon e allegations » in. thefe and. 
other pamphlets, refpecting a ane . paflage to the cone 
of one tha sae Hu dfon’ ay company had not hitherta- 
fe) — ire’ in 
and 
tial payment of iol. per t. a fek oF efie 
largement, the capital was pea an 103, on, Mr... 
obfon, who had fome years been furveyor. for the comé. 
pany, and on this occafion feemed rather-a difgutted evidence - 
againtt them, informs-us the company’s four.. | fa@tories 
agi hee 130 — and two fm fes, = 
each 3. - value of cla annual “expor 
was oo Pace and that i in time of peace they: ae 
sof 150 ta 200 tons burthen, with two or. three - 
The company,. 
jeg averfe either to... 
empt fuch under... 
ovable, value of the : 
{mall jee conftantly ftationed: in hae bay-. 
he obferved,, have alw. 
uces it to four-pence 5 the ey 
as “been fold at the connie *§ 
fale, at a medium of. ten years, for fix. fhillings three far-. 
things the pound, and a beaver-fkin generally ites te a- 
pound and‘a ‘as 3. fo dee they get nine fhillings 
penny for four-penc ich. is 2700/. per 
Upon other aa He ig wpaterial, they do not gain above - 
pee or 600/, per cent.;.but in exchange for martens the 
aia is double of. that ee beaver ; for they aes three - 
and thofe, at a medium n 
arged upon many ar- 
elfon i Churchill ane than at Mook and 
Iba any 3. thofe faCtories being farther from the French, who 
till within thefe few 4 years had not intercepted the trade there ; 
and not content even with ofit, as faGors 
mune : 7536 16s id. which a 
ehetnat nual export 
edium os w : 
cent, profit upon the annual ftock in trade, and near 73/. upon 
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