17 Essays ;
increase of our trade to those colonies, I refer to the
accounts frequently laid before Parliament by the
officers of the customs, and to the custom-house
books; from which I have also selected one account,
that of the trade from England, exclusive of Scotland,
 to Pennsylvania *; a colony most remarkable
for the plain, frugal manner of living of its inhabitants,
 and the most suspected of carrying on manufactures,
 on account of the number of German
artisans who are known to have transplanted themselves
 into that country; though even these, in truth,
when they come there, generally apply themselves
to agriculture, as the surest support and most advantageous
 employment.
By this account it appears, that the exports to
that province have, in twenty-eight years, increased
nearly in the proportion of seventeen to one; whereas
the people themselves, who by other authentic accounts
 appear to double their numbers (the strangers
who settle there included) in about sixteen years,
* An Account of the Value of the Exports from England to Pennsylvania
 in one Year, taken at different Periods, viz.
In 1723 they amounted only to £15,992 1
1730 they were 48,592 i
1737 . y 56,690 7
1742 : 75,295 4
1747 82,404
1752 201,666 =
1757 . 268,426 oJ 6
N. B.—The accounts for 1758 and 1759 were not then completed;
but those acquainted with the North American trade know that the
increase in those two years had been in a still greater proportion, the
last year being supposed to exceed any former year by a third; and
this owing to the increased ability of the people to spend, from the
oreater quantities of money circulating among them by the war.

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