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THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE.

  1. For a grand American fishery.
  2. For purchasing and improving the fenny lands in Lincolnshire. Capital, two millions.
  3. For improving the paper manufacture of Great Britain.
  4. The Bottomry Company.
  5. For drying malt by hot air.
  6. For carrying on a trade in the river Oronooko.
  7. For the more effectual making of baize, in Colchester and other parts of Great Britain.
  8. For buying of naval stores, supplying the victualling, and paying the wages of the workmen.
  9. For employing poor artificers, and furnishing merchants and others with watches.
  10. For improvement of tillage and the breed of cattle.
  11. Another for the improvement of our breed in horses.
  12. Another for a horse-insurance.
  13. For carrying on the corn trade of Great Britain.
  14. For insuring to all masters and mistresses the losses they may sustain by servants. Capital, three millions.
  15. For erecting houses or hospitals for taking in and maintaining illegitimate children. Capital, two millions.
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