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polies of all kinds of proviflons. A multi- 

 tude of people make it their only bufinefs to 

 buy up provisions ; fo that many articles may 

 be faid, without much exaggeration, to be 

 fold twenty times over before the confumers 

 can buy them ; and, unhappily, die number 

 of people thus employed feems ftill to increafe. 

 In the article of butcher meat, for iii- 

 ftance, how many are employed in going 

 from market to market, or fair to fair, buy- 

 ing in one market or fair, and felling in an- 

 other ; taking fometimes a profit of twenty 

 fliillings on a cow or fmall ox : And thus the 

 price at laft is raifed fo high to the farmer 

 who fattens the cattle, that he frequently lofes 

 all his grafs, or, in other words, has nothing 

 to pay his grafs rent: Whereas, were the 

 perfons who rear the cattle to fell them again 

 immediately to the grazier, the profit would 

 be divided betwixt the rearer of cattle, the 

 feeder, and confumer ; but now it very often 

 happens, that the rearer and feeder of cattle 

 have no profit worth while, but rather lofs, 

 and the intermediate dealers run away with 

 all the profit, at the fame time that the price 

 is raifccl very high to the confumer. 



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