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trade. The people will all spin and work for themselves
 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 colonies
 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to the right, do you think, if the Stamp Act is repealed,
 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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