1§6 November 1748. 



it becomes one of the chief articles in 

 trade. 



At this time a bufhel of linfeed is fold 

 for eight millings of New Tork currency, 

 or exactly a piece of eight. 



The goods which are fhipped to the 

 Weft Indies, are fometimes paid for with 

 ready money, and fometimes with Weft 

 India goods, which are either nrft brought 

 to New Tork, or immediately lent to -E/zg"- 

 land or Holland. If a fhip does not chufe to 

 take in Weft India goods in its return to New 

 Tork, or if no body will freight it, it often 

 goes to Newcaflle in England to take in coals 

 for ballad, which when brought home fell for 

 a pretty good price. In many parts of the 

 town coals are made ufe of, both for kitch- 

 en fires, and in rooms, becaufe they are 

 reckoned cheaper than wood, which at 

 prefent cofts thirty millings of New Tork 

 currency per fathom ; of which meafure I 

 have before made mention. New Tork has 

 likewife ibme intercourfe with South Caro- 

 lina-, to which it fends corn, flour, fugar, 

 rum, and other goods, and takes rice in re- 

 turn, which is almoft the only commodity 

 exported from South Carolina, 



The goods with which the province of 

 New Tork trades are not very numerous. 

 They chiefly export the fkins of animals, 



which 



