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The market for butcher's meat is almost everywhere confined to

the country which produces it. Ireland, and some part of British

America, indeed, carry on a considerable trade in salt

provisions; but they are, I believe, the only countries in the

commercial world which do so, or which export to other countries

any considerable part of their butcher's meat.

The market for wool and raw hides, on the contrary, is, in the

rude beginnings of improvement, very seldom confined to the

country which produces them. They can easily be transported to

distant countries; wool without any preparation, and raw hides

with very little; and as they are the materials of many

manufactures, the industry of other countries may occasion a

demand for them, though that of the country which produces them

might not occasion any.