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Show 30 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 3i ON the contrary, the rich Country hath thcl following Advantages which will more than‘ Hazrdfacz'le emeifigunt, qaorum virtutibm 05/33: counter-ballance any Diladvantage that may arife from the foregoing Articles, viz. Res (raga/ta dam; If't. As the richer Country hath acquired its 2dly. THE richer Country is not only in Pof- fuperior Wealth by a general Application, and feflion of the Things already made and fettled, long Habits of Induftry, it is therefore in actual l'ofTefiion of an eftablilhed Trade and Credit, large Correfpondences, experienced Agents and Factors, commodious Shops, Work- but alfo of fuperior Skill and Knowledge (ac- Houfes, Magazines, €995. alfo a great Variety of the heft Tools and Implements in the various Kinds of Manufactures, and Engines for abridging Labour 5-- add to thefe good Roads, Canals, and other artificial Communications; Qiays, Docks, Wharfs, and Piers; Numbers of Ships, good Pilots, and trained Sailors:--- And in refpeét to Hufbandry and Agriculture, It Is likewne iniPoiTeflion of good Enclofures, Drains, Waterings, artificial GralTes, oreat Stocks, and confequently the greater Pleniy of Manurrs; alfo a great Variety of Plows, Harrows, 69%. iuited to the difl‘erent Soils; and in {hort of every other fuperior Method of Hufbandry ariling from long Experience, various and expenfive Trials. Whereas the poor Country has, for the mol'c l'art, all thefe Thinus [0 feel; after and procure.--~Therelore wha:3 the Poet oblerved to be true in a priva te Senfe, is true allo in a public and commercial one, viz. Hui/d quired by long Habit and Experience) for in- venting and making of more. The Importance of this will appear the greater, when we confider that no Man can pretend to lift Bounds to the Progrefs that may yet be made both in Agricu-L ture and Manufactures; for who can take upon him to affirm, that our Children cannot as far ex~ ceed-us as we have exceeded our Guthic Forefa~ thers P And is it not much more natural and rea- ,leil‘lil ,_ "' w... fonable to fuppofe, that we are rather at the Be~ ginning only, andjui't got within the Threfhold, than that we are arrived at the m plus ultra of ufeful Difcoveries ? Now, if fo, the poorer Country, however willing to learn, cannot be fuppofed to be. capable of making the fame Pro» grefs in Learning with the Rich, for want of equal Means of Infiruition, equally good Mo- dels and Examples -,---and therefore, tlio' both may beimproving every Day, yet the pmti‘iml Knowledge of the poorer in Agriculture and Manufactures will always be found to keep at a. refpa rl‘I'ul Dillance behind that of the richer Country. 3dly. p |