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Show 36 SERIES or ANSWERS POPULAR OBJECTIONS. 3, To the Wh'iflit‘ Cow Tntnt Tell me therefore, win: the Nort/z-flmerimm, after a peaceable Separa- tion, will refufe to {apply our Sugar lflands for a few Years laf't pafl Great-Britain hath not (whilf't they fupply others) if they {hall be as no general Rule, becaufe it will be found, tak- well, or better paid for what they bring P And ing [00 Years together, that for one Year of Scarcity, it is bleITed with two of Plenty, tell me alfo, when did they fupply them with any one Article whatever, without being well raifed either Corn orCattle lul'ficient for its own Confumption. But this accidental Scarcity is paid for it P ANSWER 2. IF the Inhabitants of the Wq/lIadia lflands were lefs luxrious, and more in~ dufirious (and Necefiity is not only the Mother of Invention, but alfo the molt perfuafive En- courager) they might have rail-ed, and therefore may flill raife great Qiantities of molt Sorts of Provifions within their own Plantations. Con- fequently, if they will not raife them, they can in Reafon only blame themfelves. ANSWER 3. If the lI/tfl-Indz'am {hould find 3 Difficulty in fupplying themfelves out of their own Plantations with Flour, Bread, Bifcuit, Beef, Pork, Salt-Fill}, Oats, Peale, ant.l Beans, then Great-Britain and Ireland can fupply them with all thefe Articles in great Abundance, ci~ ther from their own Stores, or from Stores im« ported. And the Advantage either Way would be very great to the Mother~Country in the lndreale of her Shipping and Navigation, as well as in the Extenlion of her Commerce. Indeed for OBJECTION |