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The abundance of natural resources enabled Britain to run an effective industry in Britain. According to George Warner, he states England … has been fortunate in possessing the natural conditions necessary for success (Doc 4). The natural conditions that Warner exemplifies are coal and iron. Coal and iron was a abundant natural resource in Britain. Document 1 shows coal, iron, and lead was scattered sporadically throughout Britain. The coal was used as a portable source of energy for all steam engines. The iron was used to build the industrial machines and factories. But probably the biggest natural resource in all of Britain, was Britain itself. Britain was characterized as an island. As seen in Document 1, Britain is seen as a piece of land surrounded by water. This island was the perfect area to trade. Britain possessed a large number of harbors for trade. Warner states, “that her harbors are plentiful” (Doc. 4). The harbors enabled trade to occur on the coast of Britain. Many industries began to grow around these harbors. They slowly moved away from the conventional domestic system where machines were powered by water. According to document 6, James Hargeaves created the water frame, a large spinning machine driven by water in a factory. This was connected to Edward Cartwright’s power loom, which automatically wove thread into cloth. These machines were once vital to the British textile industry, because of its large production rate. Unfortunately, because of its location, owner who possessed coal based factories were able to get the product to the trading stations at a faster rate. While trade and production was growing, so was the population of Britain. Due to the various strategies created by the Agrarian Revolution, population increased tremendously. According to Young, methods such as enclosing without the help of Parliament, introduction of the four-year crop rotation, by growing turnips, cloves, and rye grass, and the country being divided chiefly into large farms, (Doc 8) vastly help the population grow. Through these creative methods of farming more people were eating and staying health. The morality rates decreased and women were having healthy babies. But unfortunately for every positive, there is always a negative. Because the population was enormously growing, people were in the need for jobs. People hoped that they can be employed in the farms, but owners were using alternative methods of to work the farms. Farmers were using animals and mechanical machines, to do the farm work. As seen in document, Jethro Tull’s horse-drawn seed drill and Cyrus McCormick’s mechanical reaper, replaced the conventional farm worker. Animals were being used to work the farms because they were able to work longer hours and owner did not have to pay worker.