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any other nation. That the Americans, finding no longer a 
market at the Cape for their lumber cargoes, would confiijc 
their export trade to articles of peltry and ginseng, which 
they might be induced to bring to the emporium in exchange 
for teas, nankeen cloth, and muslins, at a moderate advance 
price, such as would not make it Avorth their while to proceed 
to India and China. That other foreign nations, trading to 
this emporium, might be accommodated there with British 
goods and manufactures, nearly on the same terras as in Lon- 
don, to make up an assorted cargo. That a very extensive 
trade might be opened with the coast of Brazil and the ports 
of South America, both in Indian commodities and articles 
of the growth and manufacture of Great Britain ; those 
ports, on that continent, belonging to Portugal being now 
supplied through Lisbon at an enormously high rate ; and 
those of Spain, frequently without any supply at all, but 
what they receive from English whalers and others in a clan- 
destine manner. 
The amount of European and Indian goods (the latter 
chiefly prize articles) exported from the Cape in the last four 
years, generally in Portugueze ships by English adventurers, 
or in English whalers, for the coast of Brazil, the West India 
islands, and Mozambique, was about 850,000 rixdollars, or 
170,000 pounds currency. On the articles of European 
growth and manufacture, whose value might amount to about 
half of the above sum, there must have been a very consider- 
able profit to the private merchant at the Cape, beyond what 
would be required by the East India Company, and conse- 
quently they must have been sold at a high rate. Yet, under 
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