This I had an opportunity of Seeing in the late Tour I made, and had the same Accounts given me by all those persons of whom I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin and Card, and as every family is furnished with a Loom, the Itinerant Weavers who travel about the Country, put the finishing hand to the Work. There is a Manufactory of Hats in this City, which is very considerable; for the Hats are not so good as those made in England, and are infinitely dearer. Under such disadvantages as these it is

a yard wide; and another a stuff' which they call Linsey Woolsey.

easy to imagine with what difficulty it is supported, & how short the duration of it is like to be; the Price of Labour is so great in this part of the World, that it will always prove the greatest obstacle to any Manufactures attempted to be set up here, and the genius of the People in a

Country where

it prevails every one can have Land to work upon over every other occupation. There can be no stronger Instances of this, than in the Servants imleads them so naturally into Agriculture, that

ported from Europe of different Trades; as soon as the time stipulated in their Indentures is expired, they immediately quit their masters, and get a small tract of Land, in settling which for the