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Show [ I9 '1‘ l I8 ] QL Will it not take a long time to efiaand blifh that manufacture among them; muff they not in the mean while fufier ‘ in Virginia, don't you know that the wool is coarfe, and only a kind of hair P A. I don't know it. P gxeAilyI think not. (L111 the more Southern Colonies, as They have made a I never heard it. YetIhave been fometimes in Virginia. I And Iham of cannot fay I ever took particular notice of opinion, that before their old clot es an; the wool there, but I believe it is good, 0 worn out, they will have new ones ir own making. though I cannot fpeak poiitively of it ; furprifing progrefs already. thh Can they Soflibly find wool enough . in North-America? A. They have taken Preps. to increafe They entered into general the wool. combinations to eat no more lamb, and very few lambs were killed laf't year. ThlS courfe perfif'ted in, Will foon make a prodi ious difference in the quantity of wool. And the ef'tablifhing of great manufaé'to- ries, like thofe in the clothin g towns here, is not necefiary, as it is where the bufinefs is to be carried on for the purpofes of The people will all fpm, and trade. work for themfelves, in their own houfes. Q Can there be wool and manufaéture enough in one or two years P A. In three years, Ithink, there .may. . Does not the feverity of the Winter, in the Northern Colonies, occafion the wool to be of bad quality .9 >A'. No; the wool is very fine and good. 0‘.- In but Virginia, and the Colonies fouth ofit, have lefs occafion for wool,- their winters arefhort, and not very fevere, and the can very well clothe themfelves with linen and cotton of their own raifing for the reft of the year. Q Are not the people in the more Northern Colonies obliged to fodder their fheep all the! winter P y A. In fome of the moft Northern Colonies they may be obliged to do it fome part of the winter. Q Confidering the refolutions of parliament, as to the right, do you think, if the Ramp-aft is repealed, that the North-Americans will be fatisfied .9 A. I believe they will. Q Why do you think f0? A. I think the refolutions of right will give them very little concern, if they are never attempted to be carried into prac- tice. The Colonies will probably confi- der themfelves in the fame fituation, in D 2 that |