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for the Boroughmongers have pawned half his 

 income, and they will have it, or his blood. 

 He wishes to escape from this alternative. He 

 wishes to keep his blood, and enjoy his money 

 too. He would come to America; but he does 

 not know, whether prices here will not make 

 up for the robbery of the Borough-villains; 

 and he wishes to know, too, what sort of so 

 ciety he is going into. Of the latter I will 

 speak in the next chapter. 



328. The price of house-rent and fuel is, 

 when at more than three miles from New York, 

 as low as it is at the same distance from any 

 great city or town in England. The price of 

 wheaten .bread is a third lower than it is in any 

 part of England. The price of beef, muttoq, 

 lamb, veal, small pork, hog-meat, poultry, is one 

 half the London price; the first as good, the 

 two next very nearly as good, and all the rest 

 far, very far, better than in London. The sheep 

 and lambs that T now kill for my house are as 

 fat as any that I ever saw in all my life ; and 

 they have been running in wild ground, wholly 

 uncultivated for many years, all the summer. 

 A lamb, killed the week before last, weighing 

 in the whole, thirty-eight pounds, had five 

 pounds of loose fai and three pounds and ten 

 ounces of suet. We cut a pound of solid fat 

 from each breast; and, after that it was too 



