Through many a foreft, many a spacious wild, Far easier pains may swell our gentler floods, These on the dewy lawns await, to speed May lightly glide along. Ev'n now behold, Adown a thousand floods, the burden'd barks, With white fails glift'ning, thro' the gloomy woods Of stately Thamis, ever chequer'd o'er To great Augufta's mart, where lofty trade, Gives audiencc to the world: the strand around THE THE ARGUMENT. UR manufactures exported. Voyage through the Channel, and by the Coaft of Spain. View of the Mediterranean. Decay of our Turkey-trade. Addrefs to the factors there. Voyage through the Baltic. The mart of Petersburg. The ancient channels of commerce to the Indies. The modern courfe thither. Shores of Afric. Reflections on the flave-trade. The Cape of Good Hope, and the eastern coast of Afric. Trade to Perfia and Indoftan, precarious through tyranny and frequent infurrections. Difputes between the French and English, on the coaft of Cormandel, cenfured. A profpect of the Spice-islands, and of China. Traffick at Canton. Our woollen manufactures known at Pekin, by the caravans from Ruffia. Defcription of that journey. Tranfition to the western hemifphere. Voyage of Ralegh. The fate and advantages of our North American colonies. Severe winters in thofe climates: hence the paffage through Hudson's Bay impracticable. Enquiries for an easier paffage into the Pacific ocean. View of the coafts of South America, and of those tempeftuous feas. Lord Anfon's expedition, and fuccefs against the Spaniards. The naval power of Britain content with the welfare of all nations. View of our probable improvements in traffick, and the diftribution of our woollen manufactures over the whole globe. THE FLEECE. ow, BOOK IV. with our woolly treasures amply ftor'd, Glide the tall fleets into the wid'ning main, A floating foreft: ev'ry fail, unfurl'd, The swain's and peafant's toil with grateful hand, The |