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scarcely straw to be got at any price for 

 litter, as it is the chief of the winter food 

 they have for their cattle. When I en- 

 quired for those rugs, the landlord of the 

 tavern at Alexandria told me I must go to 

 a store to buy them ; but when I came 

 there they had no such thing, nor were 

 there any in the city ; they offered me 

 blankets, and told me they were used for that 

 purpose in that country ; but the price was 

 a guinea for a small one, which I could have 

 bought in the streets in Doncaster for five or 

 six shillings. I could not but consider this 

 as a tax, and I soon learnt that all other ma- 

 nufactured goods bore an equal proportion. 

 Mr. Gadsby, the landlord, being an English- 

 man, and from London, readily informed 

 me of the misery I had to undergo ; and 

 he frequently told me what had happened 

 to him. Mr. Gadsley was a builder by pro- 

 fession, but that had not answered. 



Finding the land so wretchedly barren, 

 I turned my mind to think on trade, sup- 

 posing from the price the profit to be very 



