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viutton, lamb, veal, small pork, hog-meat, poultry, is 

 one half the London price; the first as good, the two 

 next very nearly as good, and all the rest tar, very far, 

 better than in London, The sheep and lambs that I 

 now kill for my house are as fai as any that I ever saw 

 in all my hfe ; and they have been running in wild 

 ground, wholly uncultivated for many years, all the 

 summer. A lamb, killed the week before last, weigh- 

 iog ill the whole, thirty-eight pounds, had Jive pounds 

 of loose fat and three pounds and ten ounces of suet. - 

 We cut a pound of solid fat from each breast ; and, 

 after that it was too fat to be pleasant to eat. My 

 flock being small, forty, or thereabouts, of some neigh- 

 bours joined them ; and they have all got fat together. 

 I have missed the interlopers lately : I suppose the 

 " Yorkers" have eaten them up by this time. What 

 they have fattened on except brambles and cedars, I am 

 sure I do not know. If any Englishman should be 

 afraid that he will find no roast-beef here, it may be 

 sufficient to tell him, that an ox was killed, last winter, 

 at Philadelphia, the quarters of which weighed two 

 thousand, tioo hundred, and some odd pounds, and he 

 was sold TO THE BUTCHER for one thousand 

 three hundred dollars. This is proof enough of the 

 spirit of enterprize, and of the disposition in the public 

 to encourage it, I believe this to have been the fattest 

 ox that ever was killed in the world. Three times as 

 much money, or, perhaps, ten times as much, might 

 have been made, if the ox had been shown for mo^- 

 ney. But, this the owner u-ould vot permit ; and he 

 sold the ox in that condition. I need hardly say that 

 the owner was a Quaker. New Jersey had the honour 

 of producing this ox, and the owner's name was JOB 

 TYLER. 



329. That there must be good bread in America is- 

 pretty evident from the well known fact, that hundred* 

 of thousands of barrels of flour are, most years sent t« 

 England, finer than any that England can produce. 

 And, having now provided the two principal articles, 

 I will suppose, as a matter of course, that a gentleman: 

 will have a garden, an orchard, and a cow or two ; but, 

 if he should be able (no easy matter) to find a genteel 



