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Keeping a tavern is looked upon as ad* 

 vantageous. But, to my great surprise, I 

 found only three Englishmen in that way 

 of life, and all dissatisfied. One of them 

 lives at Philadelphia, keeps one of the first 

 taverns, and deals very largely in horses. 

 He told me that he did not like his situa- 

 tion : but knowing the art of cropping 

 and nicking horses, and breaking them for 

 carriages, which is not much known ill 

 America, he is resorted to by many gen- 

 tlemen from great distances. I was ac* 

 quainted with some persons who have gone 

 from two to three hundred miles, to buy 

 coach-horses of him. He told me, not- 

 withstanding he appeared to have the best 

 business in the country, that there was 

 nothing to be done : he had sold forty- 

 five horses in England in one day, which 

 was more than he had ever disposed of in 

 America in a year : where, for want of a 

 return, they were rather a loss ; the feed- 

 ing of, and attendance upon, horses, con- 

 suming the profit. 



