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particularly the cold wet parts, where oak timber is 
-the natural weed of the country, for grazing. On 
thofe foils the /ummer is too fhort for that purpofe, 
and they never can be applied to fo great advan- 
tage, as that of keeping dairy cows. 
PRICE OF PROVISIONS. 
Tue prices of provifions in Wiltfhire, and par- 
ticularly in the South-eaft part of the county, when 
compared with the other Weftern counties, may be 
faid to be high. 
As the South-eaft, or down part, of the county 
produces very few articles of human food, except 
wheat, hat is the only article which can be faid to 
be cheap in that part; and fo great an influence 
have the Bath and London markets on the price of 
other provifions, which are raifed in the North and 
Weft parts of the county, that butcher’s meat, but- 
ter, and cheefe, particularly the two former, are 
ufually at leaft ten per cent. dearer on an average 
at Sarum, than at Wells, or Shepton-Mallet, in 
Somerfetfhire, and fometimes even twenty per cent. 
higher than at Exeter; and as thefe caufes are likely 
to be permanent, the effects may be expected to be 
fo likewife. 
The certain demand for, and confequently the 
high price of, the produce of this county, is un- 
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