Tects. But hitherto dverted to. Time on notions of very fectually done. Leith, has lately e, that seems to be emely efficacious hers, was the mo flat, ill built boat, arcely to admit d , and which was ed, that he found dinary occasions: ht be adopted for -f the water as to e found it neces er depth of keel ter depth of keel, this purpose, he be extremely inTo effect both moveable keel, or taken up at carried into ef oth he wanted, on hinges that ion, but which ection. Thus, ch end, these t pleasure; so r, or shoal wathe boat was e had wanted o sea, where lown, the lee le the other ss to all its y those who vith him in ments. At eable keels he wind as id, a brisk ame course YS. MINED. ankind, arise from et foods, and all estimated by the we are employed ritory, may sub crease of vege irned, as were nverted into to one party only, bargains will often be unequal, knowledge taking its advantage of ignorance. 10. Thus he that carries a thousand bushels of wheat abroad to sell, may not probably obtain so great a profit thereon, as if he had first turned the wheat into manufactures, by subsisting therewith the workmen while producing those manufactures, since there are many expediting and facilitating methods of working, not generally known, and strangers to the manufactures, though they know pretty well the expense of raising wheat, are unacquainted with those short methods of working; and thence, being apt to suppose more labour employed in the manufacture than there really is, are more easily imposed on in their value, and induced to allow more for them than they are honestly worth. 11. Thus the advantage of having manufactures in a country does not consist, as is commonly supposed, in their highly advancing the value of rough materials, of which they are formed; since, though sixpenny worth of flax may be worth twenty shillings when worked into lace, yet the very cause of its being worth twenty shillings is that, besides the flax, it has cost nineteen shillings and sixpence in subsistence to the manufactu rer. But the advantage of manufactures is, that under their shape, provisions may be more easily carried to a foreign market: and by their means our traders may more easily cheat strangers. Few, where it is not made, are judges of the value of lace. The importer may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty. 12. Finally, there seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours; this is robbery.-The second by commerce, which is generally cheating.-The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein a man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. FRANKLIN. LMANAC, r the year 1758 IN. author so great Fully quoted by I have seldom may say it with nacs) annually, other authors in not) have ever and no other e: so that, did d pudding, the uite discourag e were the best orks; and, beSonally known, my adages re t the end on't. wed not only out discovered and I own, embering and ve sometimes ratified by an 11. I stopped people were s. The hour rsing on the pany called cks, "Pray, nes? Wont How shall you advise replied,u in short; any words They join, gathering taxes are the governmight more |