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Show 32 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL 3dly. THE richer Country is not only more knowing, but is alfo more able than the other to make further Improvements, by laying out large Sums of Money in the Profecution of the in. tended Plan. Whereas the poor Country has here again the Mortification to find, that the Re: (Inga/fa dam is in many Cafes-an infuperable Bar to its Rile and Advancement: And this Circumltance deferves the more Regard asit is a known Faél: and trite Obfervation, that very SUBJECTS. 33 Hands and Artif'ts of a rich Country to forfake the bell: Pay, and fettle in a poor one.- Though for Argument's Sake, it was al- lowed at the Beginning, that the Numbers of People in thefe two adjoining States were jufl: equal, yet certain it is, that the Thing itlElf could never have f0 happened,---the richer Country being always endowed with the attractive (luality ofthe Loadl'tone, and the poor one few great and extenfive Projects were ever with the repelling: And therefore, {eeing that brought to bear at firf't fetting out; and that a the poorer Country muit neccfiarily be the lcal'c peOpled (if there is a free lntercourle between valt deal of Money muff be funk, and many Years be elapl‘ed, before they are capable of making any Returns. In lhort, the Inhabitants of a poor Country, who, according to the vulgar Phrafe, generally live from Hand to Mouth, dare not make luch cofily Experiments, or em- bark in fuch expenfive and long-winded Un- dertakings, as the lnhabitants of a rich Country ' can attempt, and execute with Eale. 4thly. THE higher Wages of the rich Country, and the greater Scope and Encouragement given for the Exertion of Genius, lndufiry, 30d 1*. mbition, will naturally determine a great many ' Men of Spirit and Enterprize to t‘orl'ake their own poor Country, and fettle in the richer; {0 that the one will always drain the other of the Flower of its Inhabitants: Whereas there _ are not the fame Temptations. for the bfill Hands them) the Confequence would be, that in feveral DilIrié‘ts, and in many Inllances, it would be impolfible for certain Trades even to fublilt; becaufe the Scarcity and Poverty of the Inha¢ bitants would not alrord a fufiicient Number of Cultomers to frequent the Shop, or to take off the Goods of the Manufacturer 5thly. IN the richer Country, where the De- mands are great and conl‘tant, every Manufactdre that requires various Procelles, and is com- poled of difierent Parts, is accordingly divided and fubdivided into feparate and dil'tinét Branches; whereby each Perfon becomes more expert, and alfo more expeditious in the particular Part alligned him. Whereas in a poor Country, the fame Perlon is obliged by Necell fity, and for the Sake of getting a bare Subfifl‘ence, to undertake fuch different Branches, C 2‘ |