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THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE.

  1. For exporting the woollen manufacture, and importing copper, brass, and iron. Capital, four millions.
  2. For a grand dispensary. Capital, three millions.
  3. For erecting mills and purchasing lead-mines. Capital, two millions.
  4. For improving the art of making soap.
  5. For a settlement on the island of Santa Cruz.
  6. For sinking pits and smelting lead ore in Derbyshire.
  7. For making glass bottles and other glass.
  8. For a wheel for perpetual motion. Capital, one million.
  9. For improving of gardens.
  10. For insuring and increasing children’s fortunes.
  11. For entering and loading goods at the Custom-house, and for negotiating business for merchants.
  12. For carrying on a woollen manufacture in the North of England.
  13. For importing walnut-trees from Virginia, Capital, two millions.
  14. For making Manchester stuffs of thread and cotton.
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