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 As the advantages of advertiing came to be undertood, the decriptions of lave property became more frequent and explicit. Negro men, women, and children were mixed up in the ales with wearing apparel, Gold Watches, and other Goods —"very good Barbados Rum” is offered with "a young negro that has had the Small Pox" —and competitors offer "Likely negro men and women jut arrived" —"negro men new and negro boys who have been in the country ome time," and alo "jut arrived, a choice parcel of negro boys and girls."  "A likely negro man born in the country, and bred a Farmer, fit for any ervice," "a negro woman about 22 years old, with a boy about 5 months," &c., a "likely negro woman about 19 years and a child of about ix months of age to be old together or apart," and "a likely negro man, taken by execution, and to be old by publick auction at the Royal Exchange Tavern in King Street, at ix o'clock this afternoon," mut conclude thee extracts.

At this point it may be neceary to interpoe a caution with reference to the judgment which mut be pronounced againt the policy which has been illutrated