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SECT. 4. Weekly Markets. 



WEEKLY markets are held in moft of the towns 

 where fairs are eftablifhed ; yarn is fold in all the 

 markets, linen in many of them ; add to thefe, butch- 

 er's meat, butter, fowl, eggs, &c. befides oatmeal by 

 wholefale and retail, and potatoes. Pedlars attend 

 upon thefe days, who difpofe of a variety of articles of 

 apparel and hardware, in tents erected for the day : 

 thefe itinerant merchants convey their wares from one 

 town to another on little carts conflrufted for the 

 purpofe, in which their boxes are flowed; fome of 

 thefe carts are kept in partner/hip, others belong to an 

 individual, according to their circumftances : it is ex- 

 traordinary how many of thefe dealers fubfift by fel- 

 ling, or rather by perfuading people to think they fell 

 cheaper than the keepers of fhops. A confiderable 

 quantity of woollen-yarn flockings, from the weft of 

 Ireland, are expofed to fale on market days ; ready 

 made (hoes, wool hats, and a number of other articles. 

 Wool is alfo retailed by perfons, who buy ,t in the 

 fheep countries for that purpofe ; this wool is fpun at 

 home by thofe, who wifh to manufacture, for their own 

 ufe, either cloths of a coarfe kind, all of wool, or for 

 warping, a kind of fluff compofed of woollen and linen 

 yarn, and much ufed for domefHc wear. 



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