boards,
and Pipestaves; and also Hops, Wine, Hoops, Cask, Silk, Drugs, Colours,
Paper, Train Oil, Sturgeon, with various Sorts of Stones, Minerals, and
Oars, with Cord, Wood, and Coals, and Metals, particularly Iron; which
last, if it meets with proper Encouragement, will soon be made extreamly
useful to the Publick.

I shall not insist at large upon the great Profit accruing from the
Goods sold to the _Indians_, and their Dear-Skins and Furs which we buy.
There is Land, Provision, Materials, and all other Requisites for
carrying on these Things to the greatest Perfection and Profit; and must
not Trade and Shipping be wonderfully benefited and advanced, by
transporting to and fro the Persons and Things before-mentioned?

These Projects would tend to the great Interest of the Plantation, as
well as the Good of Thousands of poor or idle _English_, and the
Advantage of the _English_ Dominions and Trade in general; and besides
the Benefits above-mentioned, we may further observe, that by such Means
our inferior People that now are cloathed with Rags, being promoted to
Circumstances that would afford it, would yearly expend vast Sums in
good Apparel, Houshold Goods, _&c._ which they must be supplied with
from _Great Britain_, whereas now they are not only useless, but even
are noxious Branches of our Society; to which Class we may reduce at
least (I believe) 1/20 Part of our People, who might thus be put in a
Method, not only to maintain themselves handsomly and live well, but
likewise by their Consumption of Goods would support Thousands of
Families in the manufacturing of such Commodities as they may have
Occasion for: And the Addition to our publick Riches, which would be
required in the Advancement of the Fortunes and Estates of all these
mean People, would arise from the Encrease of our foreign Trade, in
supplying other Countries with those Commodities, many of which we now
even buy ourselves; so that in Realty these Folks might be maintained
and provided for well at the Expence of foreign Nations, without the
least Charge or Contribution (in effect) of our own Fellow-Subjects.

_Virginia_ was the first Plantation, and is one of the very best and
largest, depending most directly upon the Crown, and bringing most into
the Treasury upon account of the _Customs_ and _Quit-Rents_; therefore
it has the first Title to claim, and a superior Right to demand such
Encouragement, as may tend to the speedy Promotion of its Trade