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and their carriage -horses appears to be the 

 greatest pleasure those sort of gentry enjoy. 

 A tradesman is to consider another very 

 unpleasant circumstance in towns and cities 

 in America, namely, the yellow fever j in 

 consequence of which, it has, lately, been 

 usual, during three months in the year, for 

 $1 trades to be stopped ; and he is compel- 

 kd not only to lose the profits of his busi- 

 ness for that space of time, but also to incur 

 a certain expence, if a merchant, by provid- 

 ing himself with a country-house for the 

 year, or by taking lodgings for himself and 

 family at twenty dollars per month ; three 

 months' rent will be twenty-two pounds tea 

 shillings, besides the danger to his own life, 

 and the lives of all his family a great ex- 

 pence for a small tradesman ! 



