General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 - By Robert Kerr














































































































 -  As our cotton, earthen-ware, and iron manufactures
sprung up and encreased, they supplied other articles of export; - our
imports - Page 618
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As Our Cotton, Earthen-Ware, And Iron Manufactures Sprung Up And Encreased, They Supplied Other Articles Of Export; - Our Imports,

At first confined to a few articles, afterwards encreased in number and value, in proportion as our encreased industry, capital,

And skill, enlarged our produce and manufactures, and thus enabled us to purchase and consume more. A very remarkable instance of the effect of skill, capital, and industry, is mentioned by Mr. Lewis, a merchant, who published a work entitled, _The Merchant's Map of Commerce_, in 1641. "The town of Manchester," he says, "buys the linen yarn of the Irish in great quantity, and, weaving it, returns the same again, in linen, into Ireland to sell. Neither doth her industry rest here, for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and work the same into fustians, vermilions, dimities, &c., which they return to London, where they are sold, and from thence not seldom are sent into such foreign parts where the first materials may be more easily had for that manufacture." How similar are these two instances to that which has occurred in our own days, when the cotton-wool, brought from the East Indies, has been returned thither after having been manufactured, and sold there cheaper than the native manufactures.

But though there are no particulars relative to the commerce between England and Europe, which call for our notice, as exhibiting any thing beyond the gradual extension of commercial intercourse already established; yet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there were other commercial intercourses into which England entered, that deserve attention.

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