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1. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

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Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A letter to the people of Scotland on the alarming attempt to infringe the articles of the Union : and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of Session / by James Boswell.

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Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 107 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

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Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts