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Southern Whale fishers were little inclind to bring them home if they could possibly procure any other freight, Mr Chapman however inducd a merchant to undertake an adventure in a small vesell to new Georgia by offering 3/6 for small & midling Skins & 6/- for very large ones, in 15 months the ship returnd with a large cargo properly Earnd, & according to Mr Chapmans direction deliverd them to Mr Chapman, with the Profit made by these skins Mr Chapman he was able to balance the cost of building and of fitting up his manufactory.
His success now attractd the attention of other traders who possessd capital which Mr Chapman was sadly in want of these persons intic'd away the workmen he has instructed & set up rival manufactories, in which they had infinite advantage over him as by being able to purchase with ready money at a market where the commodity was scarce equal in quantity to the demand, while he was under the necesity of asking & obtaining credit at this period he devised a method by presenting his original invention still for money of pulling the fur from the skin instead of cutting it, after he had removd the whole of the Bristly hairs, by doing this he obtaind from each skin a larger quantity & a larger staple of wool at a smaller expence then he could do by cutting, he kept this invention a profound secret & took out a patent in the use of it before he had sold an ounce of his new produce, under a full [persuasion?] that he should now recover the advantage he had lost for want of Patent a legal protection to secure his original invention
in this [indecipherable] he was most greivously disapponted, the