CHAP. X.] EXPENCES OP HOUSE-KEEPING. 333 



iny 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 Che 

 shire in Massachusetts ; he knows at least a 

 hundred persons himself that make it equally 

 good. And, indeed, why should it not be thu$ 

 in a country where the pasture is so rich; 

 where the sun warms every thing into sweet 

 ness ; where the cattle eat the grass close under 

 the shade of the thickest trees ; which we know 

 well they will not do in England. Take any 

 fruit which has grown in the shade in England, 

 and you will find that it has not half the sweet 

 ness in it, that there is in fruit of the same bulk, 

 grown in the sun. But, here the sun sends his 

 heat down through all the boughs and leaves. 

 The manufacturing of cheese is not yet gene 

 rally brought, in this country, to the English 

 perfection ; but, here are all the materials, and 

 the rest will soon follow. 



331. Groceries, as they are called, are, upon 

 an average, at far less than half the English 

 price. Tea, sugar, coffee, spices, chocolate, 

 cocoa, salt, sweet oil ; all free of the Borough- 

 mongers' taxes and their pawn, are so cheap as 

 to be within the reach of every one. Chocolate, 



