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refort of genteel company to fafhionable places, by 
the importation of Irifh butter, and by monopoly and 
combination. The inconfiderable quantities of it 
brought to market, and fold out in {mall portions, 
feem to make it particularly unfit for regulating the 
price of every other produétion of grafs land. 
It muft have occurred to every accurate obferver, 
+n common with the late ingenious Mr. Wimpey, 
that moft markets are fupplied with butter by fuch 
little dairies only, as are thought *¢ below the notice 
<¢ of the wholefale dealers,” 
_ The fame valuable correfpondent mentions, in the 
4th vol. of the Society’s Papers, (p- 149) fome cu- 
rious faéts, which prove to what an extent butter is 
monopolized for the London market, at the diftance 
of 150 miles from it. He quotes a valuable paper 
of Mr. Biniincsiey’s in proof of his opinion, to 
fhew how much the produce and prices of dairy ar- 
ticles are varied by local circumftances; and con- 
cludes, that, “ there is no article in the large circle 
< of commerce that is fo much the fubjeé of thofe 
«© pernicious arts,” (foreftalling, engrofling, and re- 
grating) ‘* as butter and cheefe.” 
Whether the price of butter has kept a regular 
progreflive proportion with the price of the land 
from which it arifes,,as {tated by Mr. Davis, is 
much doubted. I have reafon to believe, that it has 
advanced in a higher ratio. 
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