As to the Foundaries which Mr Hasenclaver has set up in the different parts of this Country, I do not mention them, as he will be able to give your Lordships a full account of them and of the progress he has already made; I can only say that I think this Province is under very great obligations to him for the large sums of money he has laid out here in

promoting the Cultivation of Hemp, and

introducing the valuable Manufacture of Iron and Pot Ash. I have the honor to be &c.

H. Moore.

GOV.

MOORE TO LORD HILLSBOROUGH. [Lond. Doc. XL1.] Fort George, New York, 7 May. 1768.

My Lord--I have the honor to transmit to your Lordship the copy of a letter I wrote in the beginning of the last year to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, in answer to a letter I received from their Lordships in consequence

of the Address of the House of Commons to His

Majesty concerning the Manufactures of this Country, dated March 27 lh 1766. this Address has been inclosed to

Another copy of

me in your Lordships Letter marked N° 3, to which I must make

the same answer, as the Progress of Manufactures in this part of the world by no means corresponds

with the pompous accounts given of them in the public papers

No mention is made in the former Letter of the great quantities of Leather being tanned in this Country, as this branch of business has been carried on for many years; the leather is greatly inferior