Q. Are there any slitting-mills in America?[92]
A. I think there are three, but I believe only one at present employed. I suppose they will all be set to work, if the interruption of the trade continues.
Q. Are there any fulling-mills there?
A. A great many.
Q. Did you never hear, that a great quantity of stockings were contracted for, for the army, during the war, and manufactured in Philadelphia?
A. I have heard so.
Q. If the stamp-act should be repealed, would not the Americans think they could oblige the parliament to repeal every external tax-law now in force?
A. It is hard to answer questions of what people at such a distance will think.
Q. But what do you imagine they will think were the motives of repealing the act?