The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

By a gentleman just come from America, we learn that our old colonies have encreased at least one third, in point of populousness, since the peace: that the cities of Philadelphia and New-York are greatly enlarged and improved; that the number of inhabitants in Canada are doubled: and that the Settlers invited to the two Floridas, from the continent of Europe, by the lenity of the British laws, are daily encreasing.

The linen-thread, and stocking manufactories of New-York and Pennsylvania, are also in a very flourishing condition, by reason of the falling rates of the price of labour, which is now about one half less than what it was during the war.

And, although their wool is coarse, compared with ours, yet the Dutch merchants and planters of New-York, the Jerseys, and Pennsylvania, are daily persuading the inhabitants of those colonies of the utility of wearing their own coarse homespun, in preference to our elegant woollens, and, by their example, promoting every scheme for lessening the sale of our commodities in America.