Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies and the acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe

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I Essays and this is an evil, as I shall show hereafter, that will be little helped by our keeping Guadaloupe. The trade to our northern colonies is not only greater, but yearly increasing with the increase of the people; and even in a greater proportion, as the people increase in wealth and the ability of spend- ing, as well as in numbers.” I have already said, The writer has obtained accounts of the exports to North America and the West India Islands, by which it appears that there has been some increase of trade to those Islands, as well as to North America, though in a much less degree. The following extract from these ac- counts will show the reader, at one view, the amount of the exports to each, in two different terms of five years; the terms taken at ten years’ distance from each other, to show the increase, viz. : First term, from 1744 to 1748, inclusive. Northern Colonies. West India Islands. 1744 £640,114 12 £796,112 17 9 1745 534,316 2 503,669 19 1746 754.945 4 472,994 16 7 1747 726,648 5 856,463 18 5 1748 830,243 1 3734,095 5 I Total, £3,486,268 2 3,303,337 10 1D Difference, 122,930 10 4 £3,486,268 I 2 Second term, from 1754 to 1758, inclusive. Northern Colonies. West India Islands. ¥754 041,246,615 1] 31 £685,675 3 oo 1755 1,177,848 § 10 694,667 13 3 1756 1,428,720 13 a 733,458 16 3 1757 1,727,924 ~ .4 776,488 o 5 1758 1,832,048 1” 877.571 19 ‘11 Total, £7,414,057 5 3,767,841 12 II Difference, 3,646,215 rx 4 £7.414057 4 3 In the first term, total of West India Islands, £3,363,337 10 10 In the second term, ditto . . . 3767.841 12 11 Increase, only £404,504 2 x In the first term, total for the northern colonies, 3,486,268 t 2 In the second term, ditto . , : - 7,414,057 ! Increase, £3,927,789 3 1 By these accounts it appears that the exports to the West India [slands, and to the northern colonies, were in the first term nearly xile)| 51

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