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drink at ; but in the hot weather they 

 would not touch it. 



From the different authors I read before I 

 went to America, I thought the country- 

 abounded with the comforts of life in every 

 part : but, on the contrary, I found they are 

 much dispersed, and not to be had even for 

 money. You cannot command them, were 

 they more plentiful than they really are : 

 because, from the great extent of country, 

 they could not be procured in the same 

 convenient manner experienced in most 

 parts of England ; where every old woman, 

 if she has the money, can have a penny- 

 worth of shrimps ; but this advantage it is 

 not possible to enjoy in America. The 

 climate is in the extreme (hot for eight 

 or nine months, and frost during the re- 

 mainder) ; in the hot months, fish cannot 

 be conveyed to any great distance, except 

 in ice ; which increases the expence, and 

 renders the carriage heavy. The ice-house 

 is the least part of the business : the getting 

 the ice, and storing thirteen hundred cubic 



