Excerpt from The Colonial System: Statistics of the Trade, Industry and Resources of Canada and the Other Plantations in British America To plant vacant countries, acquired by conquest or dis covery, to afford and exact mutual advantages, for their productions in our markets, and in theirs for our manu factures, and thus to create new and independent means of supplying our wants, multiplying our population, and extending our power, is, and for nearly two centuries has been, the Colonial System of Great Britain; with various modifications, indeed, and occasional excep tions, bounties and prohibitions having now, in general, given way to such protecting duties as are sufficient for securing a decided preference to native industry, and at the same time, by dread of foreign competition, exciting to the utmost, invention, frugality, and exertion. 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.