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without any breach of covenants, after being 

 suffered to escape with only a gentle squeeze. 



337. Household Furniture, all cheaper than 

 in England. Mahogany timber a third part of 

 the English price. The distance shorter to 

 bring it, and the tax next to nothing on impor 

 tation. The ivoods here, the pine, the ash, the 

 white-oak, the walnut, the tulip-tree, and many 

 others, all excellent. The workman paid high 

 wages, but no tax. No Borough-villains to 

 share in the amount of the price. 



338. Horses, carriages, harness, all as good, 

 as gay, and cheaper than in England. I hardly 

 ever saw a rip in this country. The hackney 

 coach horses and the coaches themselves, at 

 New York, bear no resemblance to things of the 

 same name in London. The former are all good, 

 sound, clean, and handsome. What the latter 

 are I need describe in no other way than to say, 

 that the coaches seem fit for nothing but the 

 fire and the horses for the dogs. 



339. Domestic servants ! This is a weighty 

 article : not in the cost, however, so much as in 

 the plague. A good man servant is worth 

 thirty pounds sterling a year ; and &good woman 

 servant, twenty pounds sterling a year. But, 

 this is not all ; for, in the first place, they will 

 hire only by the month. This is what they, in 

 fact, do in England; for, there they can quit 



