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But though the poor country, notwithstanding the inferiority of

its cultivation, can, in some measure, rival the rich in the

cheapness and goodness of its corn, it can pretend to no such

competition in its manufactures, at least if those manufactures

suit the soil, climate, and situation, of the rich country. The

silks of France are better and cheaper than those of England,

because the silk manufacture, at least under the present high

duties upon the importation of raw silk, does not so well suit

the climate of England as that of France. But the hardware and

the coarse woollens of England are beyond all comparison superior

to those of France, and much cheaper, too, in the same degree of

goodness. In Poland there are said to be scarce any manufactures

of any kind, a few of those coarser household manufactures

excepted, without which no country can well subsist.