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of about 400 Tons and are decreased within these few years
occasioned by the Captures since the War
The Inhabitants take annually from Great Britain all sorts
of fine & Coarse Woollens & Linens, Great Quantities of
wrought Leather & wrought Iron and almost all kinds of
British Manufactures, But the Quantities of each cannot be
ascertained from the Great Variety of Persons to whom the
same are Consigned or Shipped
This Province has very Little Trade with any Foreign Plan-
tations except to some of the Portugese Islands for Salt by
a few small Vessels which Carry Lumber & Provisions and a
Vessell or two in a year to the Maderas Loaded with Wheat,
Indian Corn Bread flower and Staves which brings back Madera
Wine, nor has the Province any Trade to any part of Europe
besides Great Britain except an inconsiderable Quantity of
Wheat & Lumber sent to Lisbon and that but Seldom and
some times a Vessel to Ireland which carrys Wheat & Lumber
thither
The methods used to prevent illegal Trade are by the Ap-
pointment of the Collectors & Surveyors of his Majestys
Customs by the Commissioners of the Customs in London &
Naval Officers Appointed by the Governor in all the districks
in the Province and Considering the Numbers of Rivers &
Creeks in the said Province this Method is as effectual to pre-
vent illicit Trade as can well be
The Exportation of the Commodities & Manufactures from
hence Exclusive of Tobacco is Wheat, Lumber Indian Corn,
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Bread Flour, Pig & some Barr Iron, Skins & Furrs to the Value
of about Sixteen Thousand Pounds Sterling Annually of which
the Pig Iron & Furrs are Exported only to Great Britain.
There are a great many Iron Mines and Several of them
very good in the Province and there are Eight Furnaces for
making Pig Iron & Nine forges for making Bar Iron and Great
Shews of Copper in many Places but tho several attempts
have been made to discover Veins of that Metal none has
been yet made that quitted Cost.
The Number of White Inhabitants is as near as can be com-
puted about Ninety four Thousand & of Blacks about Thirty
Six thousand and are increased of Late years by the many
Germans & Others brought into this Province
The number of Militia is about Twelve thousand five
hundred
The Six Nations of Indians tho not neighbouring on our
Borders are in friendship and Allyance with this Government
and are about Seventeen hundred; But as those Indians are
nearer the Government of New York that Province can give
a more Exact Account of them
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