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The encrease of cultivation deletion Such measures /deletion would prevent the clandestine exportation of Wool, which the best Laws and most rigorous penalties have not obstructed, deletion they /deletion ^add these /addundoubtedly make it dearer to foreigners than to our manufacturers, yet they find their account in its purchase but if our people lived cheaper than them this would destory the advantage that enables them to be gainers by this illicit traffic.

When provisions were much cheaper than at present, the most accurate add computed those destitute of property themselves /add deletion unclear deletion add or in the chief of their same lies to amount to /add deletion rights of the people were rather destitute /deletion

add seven eights of the people; there therefore labour /add of property themselves or in the chief of add For their daily bread and from the depress of /add their families, and therefore necessitated to add provisions have not where withall to consume /add deletion labour for their daily bread./deletion half the necessaries of life; deletion but if plenty could be obtained /deletion

If our goods are made sufficiently cheap to maintain Commercial dealings, this add amazing the people. that will be employed /add deletion unclear /deletion by the means of maritime commerce; about one third of the people are sufficient deletion to produce /deletion add to raise /add the provisions necessary for the rest who may be employed in manufactures and the different appendages to commerce.

The next means of diminishing the price of every Commodity is by putting some restraint on Luxury, deletion but this can unclear done /deletion add and if possible obliging persons /add to spend not more than they can pay for but this can be done but sparingly in a free Country.

The advantages England has over its other territories are less considerable than may too generally be apprehended for Scotland as well as Ireland and the British Northern