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and six pence. At thirty miles a day, the 

 length of the journey is twenty- three days ; 

 which will give twenty-four shillings and 

 nine pence for each day ; and I am of an 

 opinion, twenty miles a day is as much as a 

 team can go on these roads. He must get 

 more by his back carriage than by what he 

 brings for his produce of this land and the 

 carrying it to market ; or he has a bad 

 trade ; but I do not believe he does. 



I was invited to dine with an English 

 gentleman named Davy, from Manchester. 

 At German-Town he had got a printing 

 manufactory of cottons. This gentleman 

 was a merchant, and had large concerns in 

 Philadelphia ; he had brought his people 

 from Manchester. He shewed us some 

 goods, I believe equal to those of Manches- 

 ter : but the weather was so frosty, that 

 the cottons were all frozen in the pans ; and 

 the people employed in this business, I 

 suppose, would require the same pay as if 

 they had been working, though now doing 

 nothing. — I spent a very pleasant day. 



