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 home without fifty or ixty hillings, the produce of their articles.

The price of butchers meat is there very high, being as follows, viz.

There is no etablihed price there for poultry, which, though ometimes tolerably plenty, epecially on the plantations of the French inhabitants, who chiefly end that article to market, is till exceive dear. A full-grown turky will cot from 16s. 6d. to 24s. 9d. and often 30s. a gooe at the ame rate; a duck from 6s. to 9s. and a dunghill fowl at the ame extravagant price. The