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For carrying on a woollen manufacture in the North of England.
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For importing walnut-trees from Virginia, Capital, two millions.
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For making Manchester stuffs of thread and cotton.
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For making Joppa and Castile soap.
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For improving the wrought-iron and steel manufactures of this kingdom. Capital four millions.
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For dealing in lace, hollands, cambrics, lawns, &c. Capital, two millions.
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For trading in and improving certain commodities of the produce of this kingdom, &c. Capital three millions.
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For supplying the London markets with cattle.
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For making looking-glasses, coach-glasses, &c. Capital, two millions.
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For working the tin and lead mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire.
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For importing beaver fur. Capital, two millions.
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For making pasteboard and packing-paper.
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For importing of oils and other materials used in the woollen manufacture.
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For improving and increasing the silk manufactures.
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For lending money on stock, annuities, tallies, &c.
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For paying pensions to widows and others, at a small discount. Capital, two millions.
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For improving malt liquors. Capital, four millions.
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For a grand American fishery.
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For purchasing and improving the fenny lands in Lincolnshire. Capital, two millions.
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For improving the paper manufacture of Great Britain.
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For drying malt by hot air.
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For carrying on a trade in the river Oronooko.
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For the more effectual making of baize, in Colchester and other parts of Great Britain.
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For buying of naval stores, supplying the victualling, and paying the wages of the workmen.
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For employing poor artificers, and furnishing merchants and others with watches.
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For improvement of tillage and the breed of cattle.
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Another for the improvement of our breed in horses.
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Another for a horse-insurance.
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For carrying on the corn trade of Great Britain.
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For insuring to all masters and mistresses the losses they may sustain by servants. Capital, three millions.
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For erecting houses or hospitals for taking in and maintaining illegitimate children. Capital, two millions.
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For bleaching coarse sugars, without the use of fire or loss of substance.
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For building turnpikes and wharfs in Great Britain.
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For insuring from thefts and robberies.
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For extracting silver from lead.
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For making china and delft ware. Capital, one million.
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For importing tobacco, and exporting it again to Sweden and the north of Europe. Capital, four millions.
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For making iron with pit coal.

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Project Gutenberg eBook #24518

THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE. THE TULIPOMANIA.