The necessaries and comforts of life were secured before they had leisure to think of its embellishments.

Necessity produced a frugal and industrious spirit, and the wealthiest encouraged by their example the economy and self-denial of the lower orders.
Artisans and mechanics soon found ample employment, and various manufactures were ingeniously contrived to supply the ordinary wants of the colony.

The natural products of the soil gradually yielded a superfluity, which was exported to the West Indian and other islands;--the commencement of that extensive traffic, which has since raised Boston to a high rank among the commercial cities of the world.
It was also sent in exchange for the commodities of the mother country, who, indulgent to her children while too feeble to dispute her authority, then generously remitted those duties which afterwards proved a "root of bitterness" between them.

The fisheries, also, were even then an object of consideration; and many found employment in that craft, which has now become a source of national wealth.

Vessels of considerable burthen were launched from the shores of the wilderness, and their light keels already parted the waters of distant seas.