•ervatits, and plenty of every thing but 

 money ; so that if a post -letter only cmme 

 to tlic house, there would be hunting of 

 poekeis to pav for it. 



h IS Terv custonurv tor these far ^ to 

 give orders on tlie storc-lceepcrs for such 

 f riynicnts as ihcy canin.i avoid during the 

 year; uhiili in general is Hritish money, 

 raised from the sale of Hrit; and I 



should tlilnk that, if the tnglish merchants 

 were I' •> sending those goods, tlierc 



would be almost a total stagnation of busi- 

 ness for want of i ^y in America ; and 

 the West-India trade i.% carried on by the 

 ^ with British credit. At horse- 

 i»vc . in America, it is usual to hear a suit 

 of cl .1 hat, or a pair of Ixx^ii, \ . 



oflercd as a u.i, which staggered me at lir^t; 

 I'ui the reason is, the .per pays all 



with Hritish property. 



llousc-b. rs and masons are numer- 

 ous in America — more than find cmploy- 

 1 fhere are very f!mt inconvc- 



niciucj> aUcading ihcbe two trade . the 



