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Show 40 SERIES OF ANSWERS T0 4.1 " himfelf hath bought on the Spot, for Two " Shillings the Hundred Weight, Rice of a " fuperior Goodnefs to that of Carolina. It OBJECTION " grows on Up-Lands, tho' of the lame Spe- " cies with that which grows in Swamps : But " as it receives five or fix Months heavy Rains, " it wants no other Supply of Moiflcure. The IN Cafe of :1 Separation, will not the Nari/z- flmerimm fet up various Manufaélures of their own, and lay heavy, difcouraging Duties on the Importation ofours ? " Negroes tinderf'tand very well how to raife it; " but they are ignorant of the Machines for " pounding it out: All Labour of that Kind " being performed by Women; and confe~ " quently flow and tedious."] I III IIIII ANSWER I. DAILY Experience proves beyond Contradifiion, that we do 'afiually fend vafi Qiantities ofBririflz Manufactures to Spain, Now this Piece of Intelligence firongly corroborates the grand Principle, which runs thro' all my Treatiles on to Italy, Germany, Rufin, Holland, and even to Frame : ~~Though each ofthele Countries have the Subjeft of America, viz. That the C010nif'ts, in quarrelling with the Mother-Country, are eiTentially hurting themfelves -, long ellablifhed fiinilar Manufactures of their and are greatly, tho' not intentionally benefiting us, by obliging us to fee and purfue our own true and \ lal'ting lnterefls.] VIII. own, and have laid difcouraging Duties on ours. Nay lome of them are femingly f0 heavy as to amount to a Prohibition. Yet, let the Manufacturers in Birmingham, Alana/idler, Nar- wic/z, &c. &C. tell the ml. 80 that the Threat, that the Colonilis may, or will fet up Manufaftures in Oppofition to ours, proves very little in proving too much. ANSWER 2. THE Colonifls have already, and long before the Beginning of the prefent Troubles, fet up every Species ofManufaélure, which could be attended with any Probability of Sue- eefs:--To which End they have carried over OBJECTION D Engli/lz |