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 The wild game of the woods, as pigeons, doves, and partridges, which, though at times, in the eaons for killing them, are very plentiful, yet bear a mot extravagant price; a wild pigeon will cot 3s. a dove or partridge 1s. 6d. and other mall birds of the country are at a very high rate. This is entirely owing to the want of laws for regulating the prices of thofe neceary articles in the iland; as thoe who make a trade of them have the liberty of fixing what price they pleae; thereby being guilty of great extortion, to the enible inconvenience of the inhabitants.

Eggs and milk are tolerably reaonable, and the latter is in general very good; but thoe who chiefly upply the market with it, adulterate it.

Notwithtanding fih of all orts are caught in great plenty in all the bays of the iland, yet