to our Plantations in _America_: some Salt we bring home; Beef might be made there very cheap, could it be saved, being purchased for little, and Salt for less, but the Climate will not allow it; only the Island of St. _Jago_ is rich, well governed, and a Bishop’s See, where they are well supplied with Necessaries, because they have Money to pay for what they buy. The _Portugueze_, as they are now become bad Navigators, so they are not great Manufacturers; some Sorts of coarse Cloth they do make, which is often shipp’d to the Islands of _Maderas_ and the _Azores_, where ’tis worn with great Delight, and preferred before any other of the like Goodness, because its made in _Portugal_; and they did once attempt the making Bays, for which they drew over some of our Workmen, but it soon came to an End, and they returned Home again by Encouragement given them here, so prudent a Thing it is to stop an Evil in the Beginning. [Sidenote: Turkey.] The Trade driven to _Turkey_ is very profitable, as it affords us Markets for great Quantities of our Woollen Manufactures, together with Lead, and other Product, shipp’d hence to _Constantinople_, _Scandaroon_, and _Smyrna_, and from thence disperst all over the _Turkish_ Dominions, as also into _Persia_. The Commodities we have thence in Return are, Raw Silk, Cotton-Wool and Yarn, Goat’s-Wool, Grogram-Yarn, Cordivants, Gauls, Pot-Ashes, and other Things, which are the Foundations of several Manufactures different from our own, by the Variety whereof we better suit Cargoes to export again; and tho’ this Trade may require some Bullion to be carried thither, yet there is a great Difference between buying for Bullion, Commodities already manufactur’d, which hinder the Use and Consumption of our own, such as those brought from the _East-Indies_, or Things to be spent on Luxury, such as Wines and Fruit, buying therewith Commodities to keep our Poor at Work; these must be had, tho’ purchased with nothing else. [Sidenote: Italy.] To the several Parts of _Italy_ we send great Quantities of Lead and other our Product, and many Sorts of Woollen Manufactures, but chiefly those made of Worsted; also Fish, and Sugars, both white and brown, the last principally to _Venice_; We bring thence raw and thrown Silk, and Red-Wooll; also Oyl and Soap, (of the latter we now make a great deal in _England_,) both used in Working up our Wool, some Paper, Currants, and other things. Both _Venice_ and _Genoa_ have made some Attempts on a Woollen Manufacture, being furnished with Wool from _Alicant_, and those _Eastern_ Parts of _Spain_; wrought Silks and Glass are not so much imported thence as the formerly were, since we have fallen on making them here. [Sidenote: Holland.]