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Show ' 42 SERIES 01-" ANSWERS Ta Eaglz'f/i Machines, working Tools, ‘ Patterns, and Models in great Abundance: 'lhey have alfo been feducing and kidnapping our Workmen, Journeymen, and Artilts by every Kind of Artifice and l'retence, for at leafl .thele 70 Years lafi palt: Nay, they have publrckly of- fered Rewards and l'remItlms: And have 1na ferted thefe Advertifements in all our NewsPapers -, wthey have enliltetl Volunteers of this Sort by beat of Drum. "Wt-"Mir" 33¢» «my mu V~ - .... V , Iafk therefore, what 1 more can they pollibly do, in Cafe of a St;para«~ tion 9 ~~ lafk further, can they do as much. And would it not have been [1525 of HIM} in them to have made the like Attempts, had they been feparated from us, and put on the. fame Foot» ing with other Nations? ANSWER 3. IN regard to the Capability of, America to rival Great-Brimin in the. Cheapnefs and Goodnefs of Manufactures (which are the main Points to be attended to) be it obierved, that zI/mrz't'a naturally labours under many ca. pital 1)efe&5 refpeEting Manufaétures. l‘or In the full 1t'lace, it doth not abound With Wool, or Silk, Copper, Iron, Lead, Tin, or Coals; Articles of the utmoll Confequence in eftabtigfhe ing large and extenfive l‘xlanufaé‘tureszf-olv eondly, the Climate of the greatel't 1 art of tief Country is unfavourable to 1everalSpec1es 0 Manufarflures, POPULAR OBJECTIONS . 43 Mantifaéttires, being either too cold, and too much frozen up in W'inter, or too melt ing and fulfocating in Summer; and very freq uently the fame Country or Province partakes of both Ex- tremes. Thirdly, the Genius and Difp olition of the People are not turned towards hard and conf'tant Labour; a Cireumfiance this, which is vifible through every Part of this grea t Con- tinent. Fourthly, their fmall Capitals , and Want of Credit is another very great Imp ediment; and it is too apparent, that this Difficulty is not likely to be removed by thei r prefent Conduct. Fifthly, their Defertion of the Sea Coafis, and removing in fuch Shoa ls up into the Country, beyond the fll/zga/zmny Mou ntains, as they now do, or lately did, is anot her great Bar to the Encreafe of any Manufaé‘ture s, which could come in Competition with the Englg'fl; in any foreign Market. For, granting, ifyou pleafe, that Multitudes of manufafturing Towns and Villages are to Start up, like Mufh- rooms, on the Borders of the great Lakes, and even beyond them; {till fuch Places, in that dil‘tant Situation from the Sea, can no more rival us, than if they had ftarted up in the Wilds of Tar/dry, or the Deferts of Améia. ANSWER 4. IN refpeét to the heavy and dif- couraging Duties which thefe little independent Republics D 2 |