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Show 38 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 39 into Butter or Cheefe by a fl101't and fingle Pro" Celi, and the Intervention of only one Female Servant, is indeed cheaper in the poorer Country: But were Butter and Cheefe to have required a more intricate Operation, and to have taken up This, lam fure, is much to be doubted ; efpecially in thofe lnfl‘ances where the Manufacture is to pafs through feveral Hands, before it is completed. Nay, were you to go into a Cabi- net-Maker's Shop in London, and enquire even as much Time, and employed as many Hands for common Articles, you would not find that in the manufacturing of them, as Wool, or Leather, it might be greatly quellioned whether the richer (uuntry would not have produced Butter and Cheere at a cheaper Rate than the pOor one. And what countenances the Sufpin cion IS, that in the Late of Wool, Hair, Horns, and r Ides, when ma‘iufaé'tured into Cloth, Hair the fame Articles of equal Neatnefs and Goodnefs could be bought in Scotland much l.ll€:l})€l‘, iffo cheap. Moreover, as to Shipbuilding, than which nothing creates to great a Confump~ tion of Timber, Pray, how much cheaper is a Ship of any Bur-then, viz. 3 or 4.00 Tons, built at Leif/z or Glafgow, than in the Yards border- Cloths, II<)r'nery»War'e, and Leather, the richer Country hath generally the Advantage: Indeed, it there are rome EX1_{'P{IOIIS, they are extremely few. And it is an rndilputable Fact atthis Day, that there are more Woollen Cloths, Stullis, Serge-s, Ur. more i-Iorn Combs, Inkwlelorns, I'eader Flalks, lanthorns, {935. more Leather tor Shoes and Boots, fent by the Manufacturers of Eng/Md into Scot/(Md, than by thofe of cm[rmn‘ into Lag/rind. "loop, or Timber, is another Infiance in Point : :Vor Timber may be reckoned to be in a great D gr ee the ipontaneous Production of N21" tine, and therefore Timber is always cheapcl'l in a poor Country. But what ihall we lay 0f fuch Manufactures, of which Timber is only the raw Material? Are they cheaper all'o 9'This, ing on the River 7715277265 .? And are not Ships built at Sam'am, in Holland, where the Necell'a- ries of Life, and Wages cannot be cheap, and where not a Stick of Timber grows, are not they built as cheap there as in molt Countries whatever, even fuch Countries which have the raw Materials jul't at their Doors ? THE like Ubfervations might be made to extend to the building of large and fumptuous Houfes, and purchafing all the furniture proper for them; and to almol't every other Article, where many Hands, much Labour and Ex- pence, great Skill and Ingenuity, and a Variety ofdil'r‘erent Trades are required before the Thing in uel'tion is completely finifhed. For in all thele Cafes, the rich, indullrious Country has a "inanifelt Advantage over the poor one. Lalldtm, C 4 tho' |