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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1738. Excerpt:... the Sea-Coast, with such Numbers of large Rivers running up the Country to the most inland Settlements, where Provisions may be raised at so small a Charge, and where Work may be done by the Labour of Slaves, almost as cheap as it is in India, give Ground to hope that we may manufacture Linnen here cheaper than any Part of Europe can import them upon us; and the Colonies be as profitable to us, by raising rough Materials to carry on the Linnen Manufacture, as the Sujfex and other Downs are for supplying Wooll for that Manufacture, the Profits of which we have valued ourselves so much upon, that we have set the Rest of Europe to be our Competitors therein. However, a great deal of the Value we set upon it proceeds from Mistake, we think abundantly more of in than it really is, the foreign Linnen and Flanders Lace, Linnen.yarn, and Naval Stores imported into this Kingdom, being supposed to amount to more than the Exports of all our Woollens. The Manufacture of Linnen in Brittany, and other. Parts of France, Forty Years ago, was thought to be better to them than the Woollen was to us; for it was generally allowed we took above a Million a Year from them, and Portugal,. Spain, and the Spanish West's.4:;. Indies Indies, twice that Value, besides what other Countries took. Indeed they have in some Measure lost their Trade with us, we now receive little from thence, but what comes by Stealths or under the Denomination of Switz Linnefi through Alsatia, their Cambricks excepted, or which I have elsewhere taken Notice. And now the Emperor of Germany's Hereditary Countries, and other Parts of the Empire, have gained the supplying of us, which has made them very rich and powerful. Now as the Woollen Manufacture, especially the coarse Part, has spread itself of late i...