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quality not quite so good as in England, excepting the pork, 

 which is fine; some little good beef, but veal arid mutton 

 very indifferent, nor is trouble taken to set it off to 

 the best advantage. The vegetables brought to market 

 now are chiefly potatoes, beets, and cabbages, great quan 

 tities of the latter, and mostly drumheads ; some few carrots, 

 turnips, onions, sweet potatoes, &c. at moderate prices. 

 A great many negroes about the markets and wharfs, who 

 appear far more lively and as independent as the whites, 

 but are treated by the latter as inferior beings ; will not eat 

 at the same table, or walk in their company, and have 

 separate places of worship. 



There are five market houses in Baltimore, some of 

 them large, and all conveniently built, very similar to the 

 old Fleet Market in London. The centres, which are spa 

 cious, are occupied on each side by the butchers ; on the 

 outside of the butchers stalls is also a passage on each side, 

 with stalls on either hand, where vegetables, country pro 

 duce, flour, meal, &c., ready-made clothes, shoes, tin- ware, 

 &c. are exposed. The fish markets are at the ends of the 

 others, and generally well supplied. To-day are their 

 Christmas markets, at which there is great plenty of every 

 thing some good beef, pork excellent, mutton thin and 

 small, veal (calf) hardly fit to eat, killed too young. Beef, 

 2e?. to 3&d. per pound; the best cuts, 4 Jo?. (I have stated 

 the prices in sterling money, being far more conveniently 

 understood by the British reader) ; pork generally sold by 

 the carcass, brought in by the farmers from the country, 

 from 2rf. to 3|rf. per pound, and sometimes even lower j veal 

 and mutton by the quarter, at Is. 2d. to 2s. 3d. each; turkeys, 

 Is. 2d. to 2s. 3c?. each ; fowls, 6d. to 9d. ditto ; cabbages, 

 (drumheads) Id. to 2d. each ; potatoes and turnips, \0d. to 

 Is. 2c?. per bushel, &c. I was asked in the market 51. for a 

 cow and calf, worth in England 8/. or 10/., only five or six 

 cows in the market ; no fairs for cattle here, and but few 

 sold in the markets ; there are some farmers that deal in 

 them, and supply those who want, and I am told do pretty 

 well by it ; wholesale butchers buy up the droves of cattle 

 that are driven from Ohio and the west, slaughter, and sell 

 them to the retail ones. The regulations respecting the 

 markets in this warm climate are judicious ; no slaughtering 

 allowed in the town no butchers shops opened anywhere ; 

 the cattle are killed out of town, and the meat taken to the 



