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ful, will generally afford a fufficient fupply for home con- fumption, ne exportation muft ftop.

AJ nations who have hands fufficient for the purpofe, wifh to keep their raw materials at home, to be wrought up by their own people, and to allow a free trade of the goods manu- factured.

When 100 people are employed upon the fame fubject, 1

e. ne oo or on Donc ee d A to of them are fufhicient for one branch of it, and 00 are required for the other, we may in general fuppofe the firft to be the raw material, and the other the manufaéture.

Corn being entirely the produce of labour, the land upon

which it grows may be faid to be the raw material, and of

100 people employed in bringing corn from the feed to the oven or full, more than 90 are engaged in bringing it to market- able grain; after which, fewer people are employed init, than are neceflary to cut and few up the woolen and linen cloths, after they have received the laft hand of the manufaturer

L'; fo that corn, when brought to be drefled grain, is a finifhed

manufacture in every fenfe of the word. The generality of other manufaëtures are arbitrary, and

may be taken up or laid down at>ofibly without

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much detriment to the nation; but agriculture muft be fup- _—— as it is the hinge upon which both our lives and actions turn, and the ultimate and only certain refource of the flate, both for men and for money.

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