Good and profitable trade would also accrue by fetching tobacco from Virginia and elsewhere, were privileges granted for so doing, to the great benefit of the inhabitants and the revenue. ' As there are already divers articles, and with population many could be produced there, several handsome things besides could also be accomplished for the advantage of the inhabitants and the revenue. * Without that, there is not always an opportunity, and if that be not permitted they are bound to convey the goods they carry, direct to Fatherland. The Company will readily permit the contrary, but heavy import and export duties must be paid. So many inspections and exactions must also be endured that no profit is realized before ambition is destroyed. Our neighbors in New England, on the contrary, trade where they list, without knowing either duty or inspection. '^ The fisheries first and mainly placed New England on its legs and, were our people privileged, would be a source of considerable profit to the country also. ^ That no others should be at liberty to fish there, or participate therein directly or indirectly, except those interested thereunto specially privileged. ' The rather because we have had some proofs of it, and it is the same sea and facility which render our neighbors prosperous. * That the settlement of the boundary be effected. The English in that quarter readily admit that the country is justly ours; but their pretence [is] the richness of the land and that it lies waste; also,