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offered a price to their minds, it is fent by water 

 to London, which is a market that infallibly takes 

 off every thing. But here it is got to the end of 

 its journey, and muft be fold for whatever it will 

 yield ; and this is the reafon why not only cheefe, 

 but all forts of grain, &c. are ufually fold below the 

 aveiage price which generally obtains throughout 

 England; often indeed conliderably under what 

 they yield in the place where they grew, or were 

 manufactured. 



Some 30 years fince, it was ufual for cheefe to be 

 fent immediately from the dairy to the fair in fur- 

 prifing quantities, and the price was then determined 

 by thepropoition the quantity bore to the demand. 

 The ble flings of propitious feafons were then en- 

 joyed in common, and the confumer came in for 

 his proportion ; but now this natural and regular 

 courfe is almoft totally perverted by the jobber, and 

 the price is no longer governed by the above pro- 

 portion, but by the price it cod the jobber, and the 

 profit he thinks fit to put upon it. He is not 

 obliged to comply with the current price, like the 

 dairy-man, who had no other refource -, the buyer 

 mult conform to his price, or he will try it again 

 and again at other fairs, till he fucceeds, or in cafe 

 of a difappointment, at laft it is fent to the never- 

 failing market — London. 



Notwithstanding 



