But the export thither of finer cloths has increased in proportion as the other has declined.

Possibly some parts of the kingdom may have felt something like a languor in business.

Objects like trade and manufacture, which the very attempt to confine would certainly destroy, frequently change their place; and thereby, far from being lost, are often highly improved.

Thus some manufactures have decayed in the west and south, which have made new and more vigorous shoots when transplanted into the north.

And here it is impossible to pass by, though the author has said nothing upon it, the vast addition to the mass of British trade, which has been made by the improvement of Scotland.