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who do it, and it is a growing evil, and of 

 disagreeable consequences to travellers. If 

 you drink wine or porter, you pay for it se- 

 parately : but brandy or rum is generally set 

 on the table, and given in at the dollar. There 

 is rarely any tea drinking, as the supper is 

 tea and coffee, the same as breakfast, with 

 fish, beefstakes, mutton chops, sausages, 

 eggs, &c. several kinds of bread and butter, 

 cakes of buck-wheat, &c. There are no 

 post-chaises : but there are horses to hire, 

 and coaches of accommodation, at "about 

 half a dollar a mile with four horses. 



Politics being very frequently the even- 

 ing's conversation in all taverns and pub- 

 lick houses in most parts of the world I have 

 been in, it is very much the same in Ame- 

 rica : and the downfal of England seems 

 to be the wish of the greatest number of the 

 company at those taverns in America ; 

 and the parties do all they can on both 

 sides to raise one country and knock down 

 the other. Being at Mr. Cameron's at the 

 Golden Swan in Philadelphia, on^ even- 



