Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Note: This old text is preserved as printed apart from the correction of the following apparent printing errors: Page 13 “Extroardinary” changed to “Extraordinary” Page 20 “luberous” changed to “tuberous” Page 26 “perpencular” changed to “perpendicular” Page 34 “Veiws” changed to “Views” Page 35 “cheifest” changed to “chiefest” Text printed in an “Irish” typeface is denoted ~like this~. A METHOD OF _TANNING_ WITHOUT BARK. [Illustration] _DUBLIN_: Printed by A. RHAMES, MDCCXXIX TO HIS EXCELLENCY _William Conolly_, Esq; SPEAKER OF THE House of Commons of _Ireland_. And to the Rest of the _Members of That HOUSE_. THIS METHOD OF TANNING without BARK _Is humbly inscribed_ _By Their most_ _Obedient Servant_, William Maple. THE Method of Tanning WITHOUT BARK. In Political Computations, the following Principles are universally allowed. That the Riches of every Country arise from the Natural Produce of the Earth; and the Labour and Art, imployed in improving the same. That the Quantity of Native Commodities, the Source of Riches, is in Proportion to the Number of People, fully and usefully employed. That every industrious Person adds to the Wealth, and Support of a Nation; and every Idler, detracts from both, by living on the Labour of Others. That it is the best Policy in any Government, to encourage, and provide for the full Imployment of the People; since thereby, the Number, Wealth, Strength, and Quiet of the Inhabitants are increased. That the Gain, or Loss of any Nation by Trade, is known, and determined by the Proportion, which the Exports bear in Value to the Imports. On this depends the absolute Quantity of Money in a Nation; the Relative Quantity of the several Species, that composeth this Money, being ascertained by the Value imposed on those Species; either as it agrees with, or differs from the Value set thereon by other Nations. A Nation certainly loses by a Trade, whose Exports are not compleatly manufactured, and whole Imports are fully wrought.