Chap. III. through the- State of Ye n i,c e, 
Kingdoms for Commodities and Manufaftures which been very little pradifed, more efpecially of late Years 
they might receive from us, and though fome People and yet one would think Enquiries of this Nature may 
entertain a Notion, that fince thofe Countries fell un- prove very fatisfadlory, and even as entertaining as the 
der the Dominion of the Houfe of Bourbon^ we are looking after fine Statues, the Figures of great Mailers, 
put under greater Difficulties in dealing with their Inha- Medals, Bronzes and other Curiofities 5 fearching after 
bitants ; yet it is very certain we have ftill a great Ad- which take up fo much of the Time of moil of our 
vantage over the French, which might be rendered of Travellers. Not that I am by any Means an Enemy 
higher Confequence than hitherto it has been ; I mean, to Tafte, but that I think in our prefent Condition, 
the trading with thefe People for their own Goods and fome Refipeft fhould alfo be had to our Interefl, and 
Manufadures, which, as on the one Hand it would that in Proportion, as our Expences are increafed by 
give us the Preference with refped to them, fo on the the Share we take, and are long like to take, in the 
other Hand it would increafe the Shipping employed by Affairs of the Continent, fo we fliould contrive, if pof- 
us in this Part of the World, and likewife enable us fible, to make ourfelves fome Amends, by enlargino" 
to export their Commodities into feveral Parts of Europe, and promoting our Commerce, which, whatever Way 
as well as to our Colonies in America. ^ thofe Affairs turn, is the only Means by which we can ever 
To fpeak the Truth, travelling with a Commercial be made the better for them. 
View, though fo vifibly advantageous to us, has hitherto. 
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