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Show M‘uuu ‘W " "'1' " ' [ 22 ] long Habits of Indufiry, it is therefore in actual I'olIeflion of an eflablillictl Trade and Credit, large Correfpondences, experienced Agents and Faé‘tors, commodious Shops, WorkI-Ioufes, Magazines, 69%. allo a great Variety of the bell: Tools and Implements in the various Kinds of Manufafturm, and Engines for abridging Labour ,---add to thefe, good Roads, Canals, and other artificial Communications; (bays, Docks Wharfs, and Piers, Numbers of Ships, good Pilots, and trained Sailors :--- and in refpect to Hufbandry and Agriculture, it is likewife in Pofieffiora of good Enclofures, Drains,Waterings, artificial Grades, great Stocks, and confequently the greater Plenty of Manures; alfo a great Variety of Plows, Harrows, {9%. fuited to the dilferent Soils; and in fhort of every other fuperior Method of Hufbandry arifing from long Experience, various and expenfive Trials. Whereas the poor Country has, for the moft Part, all thefe Things to leek after and procure.---Therefore what the Poet obferved to be true in a private Senfe, is true alfo in a public and commercial one, viz. Haudfacz'lg emergmzt, quorum virtzziz'lzm 05/351! Re: angzzfliz damz' ~- 2d1y. THE richer Country is not only in Pol1 felfion of the Things already mad e and lettled, but alfo of fuperior Skill and Knowledge (LUZ-quired l 23 ] 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 fet Bounds to the Progrefs that may yet be made both in Agrim culture and Manufaf‘tures; for who can take upon him to affirm, that our Children cannot as far exceed us as we have exceeded our Gothic Forefathers P And is it not much more natural and realOnable to fuppofe, that we are rather at the Beginning only, and jul't got within the Threfhold, than that we are arrived at the m plat til/m of ufeful Difcoveries ? Now, if fo, the poorer Country, however willing to learn, can~ not be fuppofed to be capable of making the fame Progrefs in Learning with the Rich, for want of equal Means of Inf'truélion, equally good Models, and Examples g-and therefore, tho' both may be improving every Day, yet the pmffz'cal Knowledge of the poorer in Agriculn ture and Manufa€tures will always be found to keep at a reipectful Difiance behind that of the richer Country. 3d1y. THE richer Country is not only more knowing, but is alfo more 4516 than the other to make further Improvements, by laying out large Sums of Money in the Profecution of the intended Plan. Whereas the poor Country has here again the Mortificaion to find, that the 1m magi/1‘11 (107712 is in many Cafes an infuperable Bar |