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political and commercial history can doubt. Manu- 
factures are founded in poverty. It is the multitude 
of poor without land in a country, and who must 
work for others at low wages or starve, that enables 
undertakers to carry on a manufacture, and afford 
it cheap enough to prevent the importation of the 
same kind from abroad, and to bear the expense of 
its own exportation. 
But no man, who can have a piece of land of his 
own, sufficient by his labor to subsist his family in 
plenty, is poor enough to be a manufacturer, and 
work for a master. Hence, while there is land 
enough in America for our people, there can never 
be manufactures to any amount or value. It is a 
striking observation of a very able pen, that the 
natural livelihood of the thin inhabitants of a forest 
country is hunting; that of a greater number, pas- 
turage; that of a middling population, agriculture; 
and that of the greatest, manufactures; which last 
must subsist the bulk of the people in a full country, 
or they must be subsisted by charity, or perish. 
The extended population, therefore, that is most 
advantageous to Great Britain, will be best effected, 
because only effectually secured, by the possession of 
Canada. 
So far as the being of our present colonies in North 
America is concerned, I think indeed with the Re- 
marker, that the French there are not “an enemy to 
be apprehended’ *: but the expression is too vague 
to be applicable to the present, or indeed to any 
other case. Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, unequal as 
! Remarks, p. 27. 
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