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We touched at Cork, and lay in the Cove to await convoy : 

 there we took on board live stock and sea stores. This port 

 promises to become important. If it were made a free port ; 

 if goods could be landed within a certain ring of wall, or other 

 inclosure, and warehoused without paying any duty, or giving 

 any bond to the custom-house ; the produce always deposited 

 there for the various inlets of the European market would be 

 very considerable. What West-Indian cargoes are carried for- 

 wards to Liverpool can no longer be destined to the Mediter- 

 ranean, to France, to London, without having incurred a 

 needless expence. 



We left Cork on the 4di January, 1799, having several 

 horses on board, which were very troublesome. The laws that 

 prohibit carrying out our best breeds of cattle render necessary 

 a costly and inconvenient exportation of single animals, which 

 might be bred in our continental colonies at less cost. The 

 object of Great Britain ought not to be the furnishing of her 

 colonies with what can more cheaply be produced there ; but 

 the raising of a large population, whose demand would busy 

 her stationary manufactories. 



There is almost always a north wind off the coast of Portu- 

 gal : I do not know why : but the sailors rely on it with con- 

 fidence, and are seldom disappointed. We fell in with it, 

 and were carried by it into the latitude of Madeira. By 



