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ounces of suet. We cut a pound of solid fat from each breast ; 

 and, after that it was too fat to be pleasant to eat. My flock being 

 small, forty, or thereabouts, of some neighbours joined them ; 

 and they have all got fat together. I have missed the interlopers 

 lately : I suppose the &quot; Yorkers &quot; have eaten them up by this 

 time. What they have fattened on except brambles and cedars, 

 I am sure I do not know. If any Englishman should be afraid 

 that he will fiiid no roast-beef here, it may be sufficient to tell 

 him, that an ox was killed, last winter, at Philadelphia, the quarters 

 of which weighed two thousand, two hundred, and some odd pounds, 

 and he was sold TO THE BUTCHER for one thousand three 

 hundred dollars. This is proof enough of the spirit of enterprize, 

 and of the disposition in the public to encourage it. I believe 

 this to have been the fattest ox that ever was killed in the world. 

 Three times as much money, or, perhaps, ten times as much, 

 might have been made, if the ox had been shown for money. But, 

 this the owner would not permit : and he sold the ox in that 

 condition. I need hardly say that the owner was a Quaker. 

 New Jersey had the honour of producing this ox, and the owner s 

 name was JOB TYLER. 



329. That there must be good bread in America is pretty evident 

 from the well known fact, that hundreds of thousands of barrels 

 of flour are, most years, sent to England, finer than any that 

 England can produce. And, having now provided the two 

 principal articles, I will suppose, as a matter of course, that a 

 gentleman will have a garden, an orchard, and a cow or two ; but, 

 if he should be able (no easy matter) to find a genteel country- 

 house without these conveniences, he may buy butter, cheaper, 

 and, upon an average, better than 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 

 preserved. 



330. Cheese, of the North River produce, I have bought as good 

 of Mr. STICKLER of New York as I ever tasted in all my life ; and, 

 indeed, no better cheese need be wished for than what is now 

 made in this country. The average price is about seven pence a 

 pound (English money), which is much lower than even middling 

 cheese is in England. Perhaps, generally speaking, 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 have 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 American 

 cheese, bought of Mr. STICKLER, in Broad Street, New York. 

 And this cheese Mr. STICKLER informs me is nothing uncommon 

 in the county of Cheshire in Massachusetts ; he knows at least a 



