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THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE.

  1. For bleaching coarse sugars, without the use of fire or loss of substance.
  2. For building turnpikes and wharfs in Great Britain.
  3. For insuring from thefts and robberies.
  4. For extracting silver from lead.
  5. For making china and delft ware. Capital, one million.
  6. For importing tobacco, and exporting it again to Sweden and the north of Europe. Capital, four millions.
  7. For making iron with pit coal.
  8. For furnishing the cities of London and Westminster with hay and straw. Capital, three millions.
  9. For a sail and packing-cloth manufactory in Ireland.
  10. For taking up ballast.
  11. For buying and fitting out ships to suppress pirates.
  12. For the importation of timber from Wales. Capital, two millions.
  13. For rock-salt.
  14. For the transmutation of quicksilver into a malleable fine metal.
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