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maintain over thofe of every country in Europe, in the free American market, is a proof of the fat.

Having thus finifhed the propofed fketch of the progrefs of manufactures, I fhall proceed to defcribe the principles

on which the productive powers of agriculture are founded.

Although the Author of Nature has given to man, in the different countries of the world, an equal fhare of ftrength of body, and faculties of mind, fo as to enable him to per- form nearly equal portions of productive labour, when thefe powers are alone employed; yet, for wife purpofes, He has formed the foils and climates of the différent countries of the earth, with that aftonifhing diverfity which univerfally per- vades the face of nature, from the fertile felds of 5icily, Flan- ders, and England, to the frozen regions of Norway, Lap- land, and Kamfchatca. As the fuccefs of agriculture, depends, in à great meafure, on the produétive powers of foil and cli- mate, it is obvious that an equal portion of‘fkill and capital}, may produce a much greater quantity of corn in one country than it can do in another. This being the cafe, let us fuppofe that the foïl and climate of Poland, for inftance, is fo much fu. perior to that of Britain, that the exertion ofan equal portion of

fabour and fkill, will produce double the quantity of corn, or

of other fuftenance in Poland, that it will do in Britain. As

nothing could counteraët this phyfical difference,‘corn in Bri-

tain would fell at double the price it did in Poland, as it would

require double labour and capital to produce an equal quanti-

ty... Thus, it is obvious, if Poland could fupply Britain with Gg 2

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