experimentally that our swamps and low land will produce as good of that kind as any in the world.

The People of this Town (N. York) and Albany, which make a great part of the Province wear no clothing of their own manufacture, but if the letters mentioned in your Lordships mean the Planters and poorer sort of Country people, the computat" is rather less than more, but the several sorts are coarser than what come from

England; I know no way to prevent it. than by encouraging

them to go on some manufactures that may be useful to England & beneficial to themselves, for few that are able to go to the expense of English manufacture do wear home spun, and a law to oblige such as are not able to go to that expense to do it, under penalties, would be equivalent to a law to compel them to go naked, for your Lordships well know that Goods at 100 per cent advance are reckoned cheap here, nor does it consist with my knowledge that ever any home spun was sold in the shops. supply the Crown 1 Col. Heathcote the writer of the above, was Member of the Council, and an applicant for a contract to with Naval Stores & some small sloops of War for coasting purposes.

TRADE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

CADWALLADER COLDEN ON THE TRADE OF NEW YORK; 1723 [Lond. Doc. XXII.]

The Trade of New York is chiefly to Britain & the British Plantations in the West Indies; besides which we have our wines from Madeira & a considerable Trade with Curacoa; some with Surinam & some little private Trade with the French Islands The Trade to the West Indies is wholly to the advantage of this Province the balance being every where in our favor so that we have money