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take the liberty of inferting a receipt for making a 

 potatoe foup, which I have weekly diftributed 

 amongft the poor to their great relief. 



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Ninety pints of water to be boiled with the above 

 ingredients on a flow fire, until reduced to fixty, 

 will require one peck of coals, value three-pence. 

 I have added the expence of every article accord- 

 ing to their prices with me, that gentlemen may 

 nearly perceive at how eafy a rate they can feed fixty 

 of their poor neighbours. I find from experience, 

 a pint of this foup, with a fmall piece of the meat, 

 is fufficient to fatisfy a hearty working man with a 

 good meal. If vegetables are plentiful, fome of 

 every fort may be added, with a few fweet herbs. 



I hope my inferting the above, will not be ef. 

 teemed improper; though fomewhat deviating 

 from the culture of potatoes, it may poflibly be a 

 means of rendering them more extenfively ufeful, 

 which is the earncfl and fincere wifii of 



Your friend and fervant, 

 TrJmlej, near Ipfivich, H. J. CLOSE. 



