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pounds ; then their feeding and clothing, 

 at five pounds each, will be three hundred 

 and fifty pounds per year ; here is a saving 

 of one thousand six hundred and fifty 

 pounds per year. But, whatever General 

 Washington might do with the advant- 

 ages he had, each negro would cost me ten 

 pounds per year at least, with the advant- 

 age of the fish, for feeding and clothing 5 

 therefore the sum would be four thousand 

 potmds a year : then the seventy negroes 

 would cost, at ten pounds each, seven hun- 

 dred pounds per year clothing and feed- 

 ing : then there will be a saving of three 

 thousand three hundred pounds per year. 

 The interest of money will be the same as 

 before, when there were seventy negroes 

 working, and free the planter of three 

 hundred and thirty infirm with age and 

 children, incapable of earning any thing 

 towards their support : so that from this 

 calculation, in ten years, there would be a 

 saving equal to thirty -three thousand, three 

 hundred pounds : whence it clearly appears 



