A concise account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, instituted at London, anno MDCCLIV / Compiled from the original papers ... and from other authentic records. By a member of the said Society [i.e. T. Mortimer].

  • Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810
Date:
1763
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Credit: A concise account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, instituted at London, anno MDCCLIV / Compiled from the original papers ... and from other authentic records. By a member of the said Society [i.e. T. Mortimer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may expedt further improvements, and that fuch wines will be produced as (hall deferve the reward of one hundred pounds. The cultivation of hemp, of the olive and cinnamon trees, of aloes, faffiower, &c, in the colonies, is encouraged by fuit- able premiums, and various other articles to be imported from thence; amongft which the importation of pearl-a(h has been effected this prefent year, though not in fuch large quantities as to merit the pre¬ mium, but the proprietor has been honor¬ ed with the Society’s gold medal, in confl- deration of what he has already done tow¬ ards promoting their intentions with refpedt to this commodity. And fo large a field is opened in the co¬ lonies, for carrying on the laudable defigns of this Society, that it is impofiible to fet bounds to the advantages that may one day arife, from affording this encouragement to our fellow fubjedts in America, efpecially if it be confidered that our pofleffions in north America 1