The third Part of our _Spanish_ Trade is that to _Flanders_, whereby I mean all those Provinces that were formerly under its Government, but are now under the Emperors, whether we send Commodities much of the same Nature as those we send to the other Parts, tho’ not in so great Quantities, and among our Woollen Manufactures more coarse Medleys; also Muscovado Sugars and Coals, but not so much Leather as we have formerly done, being supplied with raw Hides from _Ireland_, which are tann’d there: We have thence Linnens, Thread, and other Things, which are used both at Home, and also shipp’d to our Plantations. [Sidenote: Portugal.] The next is the Trade we drive to the Kingdom of _Portugal_, and its Islands, where we vend much of our Product and Manufactures, little different in their kinds from what are sent to _Spain_; and from thence we have in Return, Salt, Oil, Woad, Fruit, and Wines, besides Gold and Silver: We have, since the Wat with _France_, increased our Importation of their Wines, which is more our Interest to do, than to have them from _France_, whence our Imports have been always more than our Exports would pay for, and to this Kingdom our Exports are greater than their Products can make us Returns, especially since we have desisted from bringing hither their Sugars and Tobacco, Commodities wherewith we are more advantageously supplied from our Plantations in _America_, and are now able to furnish foreign Markets cheaper than they can. These People were formerly the great Navigators of the World, as appears by their many Discoveries, both in the _East_ and _West-Indies_, besides the several Islands os the _Azores_, _Cape de Verd_, and also _Maderas_, where they have settled Colonies; to these they admit us a free Trade, but reserve their remoter Settlements on the Continent of _Brazil_ more strictly to themselves, whither they export many of the Commodities we send them, and in Return have Sugars and Tobacco, which are again exported to the _European_ Markets, though little of them hither: Besides which, they have of late brought from thence great Quantities of Gold; their Islands we supply directly with our Manufactures, and from the _Azores_ load Corn, Woad, and some Wines, which we receive in Barter for them, and are the Product of those Islands; the first we carry to _Maderas_, where ’tis again bartered for the Wines of the Growth of that Island, which are shipt thence to our Plantations in _America_: In these Settlements the Inhabitants live well, and are plentifully supplied, because they have wherewith to pay for what is brought them; but those residing on the _Cape de Verd_ Islands, being generally made up of Negroes, Molattoes, and such like People, and having little Product to give in Returns, are but meanly furnished, and have scarce enough to serve their Necessities, much less to please their Luxuries, Asses, Beeves, and Salt, being all we have from them, which we generally carry