New York, if the carrying of them were this case The King in must have a great many hands & overseers left to the Inhabitants themselves He must buy horses, Oxen & Carriages & maintain them or hire them after the most in constant pay chargeable manner whereas the country people carry these Trees in the Winter upon the Snow & Ice when they cannot labor in the ground & are glad to make a little profit at any rate. will amount to treble the sum they might be bought for at

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To balance any hard ship which the Colonys may apprehend themselves to be under The British Parliament has given such rewards & encouragements to their Plantations as no other nation has done the like for the manufacture of Hemp & Tar. The benefit of this however does not so immediately reach the Planters as the before mentioned penalties affect him,

There is a considerable difference between encourageing the exportation & sale of a commodity which is already the manufacture of the country & engageing people to go upon a new commodity or manufacture in the first it is sufficient to give the merchant encouragement to buy & export in the other the encouragement would

be more effectual if it were immediately applied to the persons who were to begin the Manufacture & run the whole risque of its turning to advantage or not.

Now I shall mention the means which I think most probable to make this Province useful in producing Naval Stores & which may with the least difficulty be put in practice In the first place, to