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country-house without these conveniences, he may buy 

 butter, cheaper, and, upon an average, better th^n in 

 England. The garden stuff, if he send to New York 

 for it, he must buy pretty dear ; and, faith, he ought 

 to buy it dear, if he will not have some planted and 

 presened. 



330. Cheese, of the North River produce, I have, 

 bought as good of Mr. Stickler of New York as I 

 ever tasted in all ray life ; and, indeed, no better cheese 

 need be wished for than Avhat is now made in this coun- 

 try. The average price is about seven, pence a pound 

 (English money), which is much lower than even mid' 

 dling cheese is in England. Perhaps, ^reneraZ/j/ speak- 

 ing, the cheese here is not so good as the better kinds 

 in England ; but, there is none here so poor as the 

 poorest in England. Indeed the people would not eat 

 it, which is the best security against its being made. 

 Mind, I state distinctly, that as good cheese as I ever 

 tasted, if not the best, was of American produce. I 

 know the article well. Bread and cheese dinners ha.ve 

 been the dinners of a good fourth of my life. I know 

 the Cheshire, Gloucester, Wiltshire, Stilton, and the 

 Parmasan ; and I never tasted better than Ameri- 

 can cheese, bought of Mr. Sticklek, in Broad Street, 

 New York. And this cheese Mr. Stickler informs 

 me is nothing uncommon in the county of Cheshire ia 

 Massachusetts ; he knoM's at least a hundred persons 

 himself that make it equally good. And, indeed, why 

 should it not be thus in a country where the pasture is 

 so rich ; where the swn warms every thing into sweet- 

 ness ; where the cattle eat the grass close under the 

 ihade of the thickest trees; which we know well they 

 will not do in England. Take any fruit which has 

 grown in the shade in England, and you will find that 

 it has not half the sweetness in it, that there is in fruit 

 of the same bulk, grown in the sun. But, here the sun 

 sends his heat down through all the boughs and leaves. 

 The manufactuHng of cheese is not yet generatly 

 brought, in this country, to the English perfection; 

 but, here are all the materials, and the rest will soon 

 follow. 



981. Groceries, m they are called, are, upon an 



