If Trade should once cease, the Custom-house would soon miss her hundreds and thousands Hogs-heads of Tobacco (see note No. 40), that use to be throng in her every year, as well as the Grocers would in their Ware-houses and Boxes, the Gentry and Commonalty in their Pipes, the Physician in his Drugs and Medicinal Compositions; The (leering) Waiters for want of imployment, might (like so many _Diogenes_) intomb themselves in their empty Casks, and rouling themselves off the Key into the _Thames_, there wander up and down from tide to tide in contemplation of _Aristotles_ unresolved curiosity, until the rottenness of their circular habitation give them a _Quietus est_, and fairly surrender them up into the custody of those who both for profession, disposition and nature, lay as near claim to them, as if they both tumbled in one belly, and for name they jump alike, being according to the original translation both _Sharkes_. {66} Silks and Cambricks, and Lawns to make sleeves, would be as soon miss’d at Court, as Gold and Silver would be in the Mint and Pockets: The Low-Country Soldier would be at a cold stand for Outlandish Furrs to make him Muffs, to keep his ten similitudes warm in the Winter, as well as the Furrier for want of Skins to uphold his Trade. Should Commerce once cease, there is no Country in the habitable world but would undoubtedly miss that flourishing, splendid and rich gallantry of Equipage, that Trafique maintained and drest her up in, before she received that fatal Eclipse: _England_, _France_, _Germany_ and _Spain_, together with all the Kingdoms—— But stop (good Muse) lest I should, like the Parson of _Pancras_ (see note No. 41), run so far from my Text in half an hour, that a two hours trot back again would hardly fetch it up: I had best while I am alive in my Doctrine, to think again of _Mary-Land_, lest the business of other Countries take up so much room in my brain, that I forget and bury her in oblivion. The three main Commodities this Country affords for Trafique, are Tobacco, Furrs, and Flesh. Furrs and Skins, as Beavers, Otters, Musk-Rats, Rackoons, Wild-Cats, and Elke or Bufieloe (see note No. 42), with divers others, which were first made vendible by the _Indians_ of the Country, and sold to the Inhabitant, and by them to the Merchant, and so {67} transported into _England_ and other places where it becomes most commodious.