ese Commodities, together with many more;
particularly Hides, which I forgot to mention, which are now hardly of
any Use or Value there, but might be tann'd very cheap, because of the
Plenty of Bark; and I believe likewise that good Use might be made of
their Sheep and Calf-Skins, which are now of no Value nor Use worth
speaking of. What Numbers would the Manufacture of these Things employ,
and what Advantage would it bring to the Workmen and the Planters?

But I see that these Propositions may raise the loud Clamours of
Thousands of People concerned in _England_, in the Trades belonging to
all the Commodities here spoken of: In Answer to whose various
Objections it may be replied, that all these Things would be wrought by
their own Countrymen, poor Neighbours, or Friends; that it will ease
them of their Poor, Vagabonds, and Villains: That all these Goods are to
be transported to _England_, so that in reality _Virginia_ would be only
as a Yard or Work-House where these Servants and Journeymen would labour
for the _English_; besides several of these Things are such as we are
wholly or in part supplied with from other Nations; and certainly we had
better have Goods of the Produce of our own People and Countries, than
buy them of Strangers, who make them for us; and if too great Quantities
of any kind should be made, more than our own Consumption requires,
surely it will be very advantageous for us, if we can supply other
Nations with such Goods, the best of their Kind, and at the cheapest
Rate. Whenever any of these Projects should interfere with the Interest
of _Great Britain_, by all Means they should be stop'd; and when
particular Trades or Persons might receive Damage by any of these
Projects carried on in _Virginia_, Amends might be made them by some
other Privileges and Advantages in several other Respects. Such Things
should be encouraged _there_, though they made less of several Kinds
_here_; for Abundance of our People and our Land might be employed more
properly in other Things, rather than in what they are; which might be
much more easy to them, more agreeable to their Soil, and more to the
Interest of themselves and the Publick; especially with Respect to such
Things as would be produced better, with less Labour and more Plenty,
with less Expence and more Profit in _Virginia_ than in _Great Britain_.
Such Things certainly might more properly be manufactured there, and our
Land and our People now employed at Hom