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more fcarce. However, they fell it to joiners, 

 coach-makers, and other artifts, who pay exor- 

 bitantly for it. For a quantity of hiccory of 

 eight foot in length, and four in depth, and the 

 pieces being likewife four foot long, they paid at 

 prefent eighteen {hillings of Penjyhanian cur- 

 rency. But the fame quantity of oak only came 

 to twelve {hillings. The people who came at 

 prefent, to fell wood in the market, were pea- 

 fants, who lived at a great diftance from the 

 town. Every body complained, that fuel, in 

 the fpace of a few years, was rifen in price to 

 many times as much again as it had been ; and, 

 to account for this, the following reafons v/ere 

 given : The town is encreafed to fuch a degree, 

 as to be four or fix times bigger, and more po- 

 pulous than what feme old people have known 

 it to be, when they were young. Many brick- 

 kilns have been made hereabouts, which require 

 a great quantity of wood. The country is like- 

 wife more cultivated than it ufed to be, and con- 

 fequently great woods have been cut down for 

 that purpofe ; and the farms built in thofe places 

 likewife confume a quantity of wood. Laftly, 

 they melt iron out of the ore, in feveral places 

 about the town, and this work always goes on 

 without interruption. For thefe reafons it is 

 concluded, in future times, Philadelphia will be 

 obliged to pay a great price for wood. 



THE wine of blackberries, which has a very 

 fine tafte, is made in the following manner. The 

 juice of the blackberries is prefled out, and put 

 into a veffel ; with half a gallon of this juice, an 

 equal quantity of water is well mixed. Three 



pounds 



