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THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE.

  1. For trading in hair.
  2. For erecting salt-works in Holy Island. Capital, two millions.
  3. For buying and selling estates, and lending money on mortgage.
  4. For carrying on an undertaking of great advantage; but nobody to know what it is.
  5. For paving the streets of London. Capital, two millions.
  6. For furnishing funerals to any part of Great Britain.
  7. For buying and selling lands and lending money at interest. Capital, five millions.
  8. For carrying on the royal fishery of Great Britain. Capital, ten millions.
  9. For assuring of seamen’s wages.
  10. For erecting loan-offices for the assistance and encouragement of the industrious. Capital, two millions.
  11. For purchasing and improving leaseable lands. Capital, four millions.
  12. For importing pitch and tar, and other naval stores, from North Britain and America.
  13. For the clothing, felt, and pantile trade.
  14. For purchasing and improving a manor and royalty in Essex.
  15. For insuring of horses. Capital, two millions.
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