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Show [ 31 ] vv V y' ' K. .r 5A i,",\ "‘2. ralli‘vvsi _ 1' ~r ~35 ‘v -vy--. i 4.17 _\_,.. ‘H-r \ '9 U we V 3in , I 30 l? as much Time, and employed as many Hands even for common Articles, you would not find that the fame Articles of equal Neatnefs and in the manufacturing of them, as Wool, or Goodnefs could be bought in Scotland much Leather, it might be greatly quel‘tioned, whether cheaper, if [0 cheap, the richer Country would not have produced Butter and Cheefe at a cheaper Rate than the poor one. And what countenances this Sufpl- building, than which nothing creates fo great a Confumption of Timber, Pray, how much cheaper is a Ship of any Burthen, viz. 3 or 400 cion is, that in the Cafe of Wool, Hair, Horns, Tons, built at Leif/z or Gin/gate), than in the and Hides,when manufactured into Cloth, Hair- Yards bordering on the 7"124mm? And are not Cloths, Hornery- Ware, and Leather, the richer Country hath generally the Advantage : Indeed, if there are lbme Exceptions, they are extremely few. And it is an indilputable Faét at this Day, Ships built at Sam'am, in Holland, where the Moreover, as to Ship- Necefl'aries of Life and Wages cannot be cheap, and where not a Stick of Timber grows, are not they built as cheap there as in mof't Countries that there are more Woollen Cloths, Stufi‘s, whatever, even fuch Countries which have the Serges, {9%. more Horn Combs, Ink-Horns, raw Materials juft at their Doors P THE like Obfervations might be made to extend to the building of large and fumptuous Houfes, and purchafing all the Furniture prOper Powder-Flafks, Lanthorns, €56. more Leather for Shoes and Boots, lent by the Manufacturers of Eng/and into Scot/and, than by thofe of Mara [and into Eng/and. for them; and to almoi't every other Article, WOOD, or Timber, is another Infiance in where many Hands, much Labour and EX- Point: For Timber may be reckoned to be in a great Degree the fpontaneous Production of Na- ture, and therefore Timber is always cheapel'c pence, great Skill and Ingenuity, and a Variety fuch Manufactures, of which Timber is only .ofdifi‘erent Trades are required before the Thing in (lueftion is completely finifhed. For in all thefe Cafes, the rich, induftrious Country has a manifef't Advantage over the poor one. London, the raw Material? Are they cheaper alibi-d tho' the dearefi Place in the Kingdom to live at, This, 1 am fure, is much to be doubted -, efpe cially in thofe Infiances where the Manufacture is to pafs through feveral Hands, before it is is by far the cheapel't for purchafing Houlhold Goods. AFTER f0 much hath been faid on the Sub- completed, Nay, were vou to go into a Cabinet-Maker's Shop in London, and enquire ject, it would be needlefs to have Recourfe to V ' the in a poor Country. But what {hall we fay of even |