Excerpt from The Importance of the British Plantations in America to This Kingdom: With the State of Their Trade, and Methods for Improving It; As Also a Description of the Several Colonies There Pirli I iball explain' What I mean by the Ballance of Trade, then thew in fome In ilances wherein that Ballance is againll us at prefent; and offer fome P'ro'polals for the difcouraging thofe Branches of Trade with themwhich are mol't detrimental to us, and farther; fhew, that molt of thole Things Which are abfolutely neceffary for us as a trading, Nation, may be produced within durovcm Dominions at a lefs Expence than Weipurchafe them from Foreigners, to. The Increafc of our own Shipping and Navigati 'the Employment of more Manu fae'turers in this Kingdom. 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.