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called bear-skin, eight dollars ; ditto for a 

 youth eighteen years old, ten dollars (three 

 pounds fifteen shillings) ; a coat of ladies* 

 cloth, such as sells in England at about fif- 

 teen shillings a yard, seven pounds nineteen 

 shillings and five pence ; a milking-jacket, 

 four dollars and a half, or one pound thir- 

 teen shillings and nine pence. 



A front store, or shop, of sixteen feet in 

 front, lets for a thousand dollars per annum ; 

 a larger one at fifteen hundred. There is a 

 tavern, called the third tavern in Balti- 

 more — the house only, lets at tw^elve 

 hundred pounds a year : and every other 

 house in proportion. The land within 

 two miles of Baltimore (the place to which 

 these observations attach) sells, for ten or 

 fifteen acres together, at forty-five and fifty 

 pounds per acre. 



Wood is from five to nine dollars per 

 cord ; the cord is twelve feet long, four 

 feet high, and three feet over. 



Portering in towns is from one dollar to 



