Excerpt from A Letter From a Merchant Who Has Left Off Trade to a Member of Parliament: In Which the Case of the British and Irish Manufacture of Linnen, Threads, and Tapes, Is Fairly Stated, and All the Objections Against the Encouragement Proposed to Be Given to That Manufacture Fully Answered The four Seas are our Property; the Ocean is with in our Dominion; and as we have at Land a great Variety of Soil, if we make a. Proper Ufe of what belongs to us, we cannot fail of making Profits at Sea by our Pilheries, and at Land by Agriculture, Grazing, and sheep-walks. Some of our Lands mul't be employed for the Production of Corn thofe which are nor fo proper for producing Corn, may be converted to the Production of Hemp and Flax and thofe which are not proper for Agriculture, may be ufefully employed in Grazing or sheep-walks; by which means every Part of our Soil will conduce to the Improvement of the Other; therefore no meafure ought to be neglected for enabling out People to make 3 Profit by every one of thefe Methods; and no one of them deferves more to be encouraged than the producing of Hemp and Flax, and the bringing of that Production to its utmoft Perfection by Manu facture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.