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Show (51) (sci from Greenland, and probably far more; {0 as not' Tho' this Acceflion to the Whale Fifhery, that only to make any Supply from Hal/and unnecefi fary, but to enable us in Procefs of Time to fell at foreign Markets Upon Cheaper Terms than tholi: who fetch the Commodity from Greenland can afford it; for the American Whale F ilhery being of Seals and Sea Cows, the Monopoly of Beaver, carried on in Seas little encurnber'd with Ice, and to them, are by no Means confined to the Inha- confequently requiring fewer Precautions in the Confiruction and Equipment of the Ships, and in the Choice and the Number ofthe Crew; being open1 for a much longer Seafon; and at all Times leis iable to Accidents, Dilappointments, and LOITCS than the other; and the Ships employ'd in it having Opportunities to make Returns both Ways in their Voyages; with all thefe Advantages, it mull necefiarily in Time prevail over that which has hitherto flourilh'd only becaule there was no other : but whatever may be the Event upon this Speculation, Ihould our own Confumption alone be fupplied, even in that confined View it was right to prefer the flmerz'can to the Brig/ll Whale Filliery. Tho' we refign a va~ bitants of the newly acquired Territories : Other Colonies will enjoy an equal, fome a greater fliare: luable Branch of Trade in their I'avour, a Trade whofe‘l'roduce may be valued at ‘T/zree Hundred Thou/and Pound: a Year, and in which three thou- fand Seamen, befides a great Number of Shipwrights, and other Artificers were employ'd; yet the Preference is given upon truly national Confi- derations, when the Inhabitants of ximerz'ca and of and many other important Branches of Commerce, are particularly Parts of our new Acquifitions, yet the Profits arifing from them, and the Benefits refulting from'thc Encouragement given The Beaverfor lnftance, is not thel'roduce of Ca- nada alone, and the Vent ofit only down the Ri« ver St. Laurence; but the Redué‘tion of Canada having open'd our Communication with all the Countries where it is produced ; it may now be brought over the Lakes, and down the Rivers, to New-England, New-York, and perhaps to {till more Southern Colonies; whofe Merchants will enrich themfeIVes with the Spoils of Defarts, they hardly knew before. The Whale Fifhery liems indeed more local, but even that will be carried on by Ships fent from Ports far dii'tant from the Gulph of St. Laurence, and a great Part oi the Coait of Nor/b-Amerim will be engaged in {o beneficial an Adventure : By them it has been increas'd to its prefent Extent, for the Inhabitants of the Shores of the Gulph evidently cannot have been fulficient for what has been done already. But even thofc who are too far removed to be immediately aétive in the Fifhe- Europe are look'd upon as one People : It then be~ comes a general Benefit to promote that Filliery ry itfclf, will be fenfible of its Effects, and par- which has f0 many Advantages over the other; Profits of the Colonies that are engaged in it, will and which will maintain itfelf without the Support of Bounties, the Expence of which was near circulate thro' all the others, from whom they will demand, as their Wealth and their Inhabitants in- g1"Hrgv {barmaid Poem/j; par (imam. creafe, larger Supplies of the Commodities which Tho' take of the Generofity of Great Britain. The they do not produce themfelves ; for hardly any H . |