ed, I say, with the principles of commerce in a very
extraordinary manner; that is to say, so as no other country in Europe, or
perhaps in the world, is supplied with.

I. With the product of the earth. This is of two kinds: 1. That of the
inside or bowels of the earth, the same of which, as above, the voice of
Heaven to us, is, dig and find, under which article is principally our
lead, and tin-coal; I name these only, because of these this island seems
to have an exclusive grant; there being none, or but very small quantities
of them, found in any other nation; and it is upon exclusive benefits that
I am chiefly speaking. 2. We have besides these, iron, copper, _lapis
calaminaris_, vulgarly called callamy, with several other minerals, which
may be said to be in common to us and the rest of the world, of which the
particulars at large, and the places where they are found, may be fully
seen in a late tract, of which I shall have frequently occasion to speak
in this work, entitled, A Plan of the Commerce of Great Britain, to which
I refer, as indeed to a general index of the trade and produce of this
whole island.

II. The product of the surface, which I include in that part, plough and
reap; and though this is not indeed an exclusive product, yet I may
observe that the extraordinary increase which our lands, under an
excellent cultivation, generally yield, as well in corn and cattle, is an
uncommon argument for the industry of the husbandmen; and I might enter
into a comparison with advantage, against almost any countries in Europe,
by comparing the quantity produced on both sides, with the quantity of
land which produce those quantities.

You may find some calculations of the produce of our own country in the
book above mentioned, viz., The Plan of the Commerce of Great Britain,
where the consumption of malt in England is calculated by the value of the
duties of excise, and where it appears that there is annually consumed in
England, besides what is exported to foreign countries, forty millions of
bushels of malt, besides also all the barley, the meal of which is made
into bread, which is a very great quantity; most of the northern counties
in England feeding very much upon barley bread; and besides all the barley
either exported or used at home in the corn unmalted; all which put
together, I am assured, amounts to no less than ten millions of bushels
more.

The quantity of barley only is so exceeding great, that I a