may be got here, but more plentifully in some of the other Northern made use of by the Navy or Nation of Great Britain, if

Collonys, in greater quantitys than can be

the price at home will encourage

it,

which I am informed it has not done for several years past,

notwithstanding the bounty allowed on the importation.

am told your Lordships formerly sent hither the method used in Russia for making of Tar and

that upon tryal thereof it was found not to answer here, which is attributed more to the difference

of the nature of their pitch pine and that of this Country, than to the unskillfulness of our people.

In the Jerseys is an extraordinary rich mine and some others are discovered there which afford a

good prospect but in this Province none have as yet been discovered, tho' a good deal of money lias been expended in search of

them.

Some lead mines have been found in several parts of this Collony but they hitherto not by farr quitted the cost expended on them, and

rather send

it

if

they happen to prove good, I believe the proprietor will

home in Oar than be at the charge to erect smelt houses here.

We have a great many Iron mines both of the bogg, and of the Mountain Oar but as yet no Iron Work is set up in this province if any encouragement was given upon the importing of it in Piggs and Bars, at least that it might be free of dutys, It is very probable that in a few years the Nation might be amply supplyed from her own Plantations and it is evident that the whole amount thereof wo'd be paid in the manufactures of Great Britain, who now pays ready money (as I am informed) for greatest part of the Iron It has from Sweden.