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tlian a quarter of any animal ; and as the 

 poor man is very unlikely to have it in his 

 power to buy a quarter, he is deprived of 

 that market. At the time I quitted Balti- 

 more, bread, w^hen bought of the baker, 

 cost me on the average, for seven persons in 

 family, three shillings currency, a day ; and 

 when I arrived at Liverpool, one shilling 

 sterling : wheat-flour, per barrel, at Balti- 

 more, four pounds seven shillings and six 

 pence currency ; and at Liverpool, three 

 pounds ten shillings sterling. I do not re- 

 collect the weight of the loaf of bread ; but 

 I remember Mr. Brydon's (who keeps a 

 tavern) brother (who is the captain of a 

 ship trading to London) arrived at Balti- 

 more a few days before I left the country ; 

 and, being asked the price of beef and bread 

 in London, he gave the w^eight and price 

 of the loaf there ; when a calculation was 

 made, by which it appeared that bread 

 was a half-penny in the shilling cheaper in 

 London than at Baltimore ; and barreled 

 beef about the same price. But the poor 



