Every species of produce requisite for the food and clothing of man grows easily, and as it were joyfully, in this privileged land.

If men in the midst of it are in want of bread or shirts, Nature has no cause to reproach herself, and Providence washes its hands of the evil.
In all the three states raw material exists in incredible abundance.
Here are hemp, for ropemakers, spinners, and weavers; wine, for distillers; olives, for oil and soap makers; wool, for cloth and carpet manufacturers; hides and skins, for tanners, shoemakers, and glovers; and silk in any quantity for manufactures of luxury.

The iron ore is of middling quality, but the island of Elba, in which the very best is found, is near at hand.

The copper and lead mines, which the ancients worked profitably, are perhaps not exhausted.

Fuel is supplied by a million or two of acres of forest land; besides which, there is the sea, always open for the transport of coal from Newcastle.