Excerpt from Financial and Political Facts of the Eighteenth Century: With Comparative Estimates of the Revenue, Expenditure, Debts, Manufactures, and Commerce of Great Britain We have alfo the local advantages, and con veniences of a number of navigable rivers and canals, that communicate With all our prin cipal manufacturing towns, and facilitate the tranfport of bulky articles of commerce frombne fea to another. In this inland na vigatibn Great Britain has advantages that no other nation at prefent enjoys, by having no midland manufacturing town at a greater dill tance than 70 miles from the (ea, or, which'is the fame thing, from the port where the come modifies either for a foreign or home market are to be (hipped. Thefe are circumflances which are probably of more confequence to this as a commercial country, than all her foreign conquefls and acquifitions. 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.