they exclude better Artists from their Societies, unless they purchase their Freedoms at unreasonable Rates. [Sidenote: Hamburgh.] _Hamburgh_ is another Market for our Manufactures; This City vends great Quantities of our Cloth, as also Tobacco, Sugars, and other Plantation Commodities, together with several of our Products, which are also thence sent into _Germany_; from whence we have in Returns Linnens, Linnen-yarn, and other Commodities, very necessary both for the Use of our selves and of our Plantations, and little interfering with our own Manufactures. [Sidenote: Poland.] _Poland_ also takes off many of our Manufacturers, wherewith it is supplied chiefly from _Dantzick_, whither they are first carried, and thence disperst into all Parts of that Kingdom, which hath but little Wool of its own, and that chiefly in _Ukrania_; But the Expence of our Cloth hath been lessened there, since _Silesia_, and the adjoining Parts of _Germany_, have turn’d their Looms to that Commodity, occasion’d by our disusing their Linnens, and wearing Callicoes in their Room; we have thence some Linnens, also Potashes. [Sidenote: Russia.] _Russia_ is likewise supplied by way of St _Angelo_ with our Woollen Manufactures, and other Things, also with some Tobacco; But the Sale of the latter is decreased, occasioned (as I am inform’d) by the Indiscretion of our Merchants that imported it; who putting an excessive Price thereon, caused the Czar to encourage the Planting it in his own Dominions, which being very large, and reaching from the _Mare Album_ Northward, to the _Caspian_ Sea Southward, besides its vast Extent from East to West, affords Climates enough proper for it; By which Means, we are in danger of losing the Sale of that Commodity, so profitable to the Nation, which we might have continued, if they had not been too Covetous at first: We have in Returns from thence, Hemp, Potashes, _Russia_ Hides, with some Linnen, and other Commodities, both useful at home, and fit to be carry’d abroad. [Sidenote: Sweden.] _Sweden_ and its Territories takes off great Quantities of our Manufactures, both fine and coarse, and some of our Product, besides Tobacco and Sugars, and other Plantation Goods; But the Sales of our Cloth hath been lessen’d there, occasion’d by their loading it with great Duties, on purpose to encourage a Manufacture of their own; their Wool is coarse, so consequently the Cloth made thereof must be ordinary; however, the late King encourag’d the Wearing it by his own Example, and thought it the Interest of his Kingdom so to do: Yet all sorts of Serges, Stuffs, and Perpets are carry’d thither, and I think as freely as before; From thence we have Copper, Iron, and some other Things. [Sidenote: Denmark and Norway.] _Denmark_ is supply’d from us with Woollen Manufactures, yet takes no great Quantities, and _Norway_ less, the People of the latter being generally poor; some Tobacco and Sugar is also shipp’d hence and spent amongst them.