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trade. The people will all spin and work for them- 
selves in their own houses. 
Q. Can there be wool and manufacture enough in 
one or two years? 
A. In three years, I think there may. 
QO. Does not the severity of the winter, in the 
northern colonies, occasion the wool to be of bad 
quality? 
A. No; the wool is very fine and good. 
Q. In the more southern colonies, as in Virginia, 
don’t you know that the wool is coarse and only a 
kind of hair? 
A. I don’t know it. I never heard it. Yet I 
have been sometimes in Virginia. I cannot say 
I ever took particular notice of the wool there, but I 
believe it is good, though I cannot speak positively of 
it; but Virginia and the colonies south of it have less 
occasion for wool; their winters are short, and not 
very severe; and they can very well clothe themselves 
with linen and cotton of their own raising for the rest 
of the year. 
Q. Are not the people in the more northern colo- 
nies obliged to fodder their sheep all the winter? 
A. In some of the most northern colonies they 
may be obliged to do it some part of the winter. 
Q. Considering the resolutions of Parliament,” as 
to the right, do you think, if the Stamp Act is re- 
pealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied? 
A. 1 believe they will. 
( Why do you think so? 
A. 1 think the resolutions of right will give them 
1 Afterwards expressed in the Declaratory Act. 
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