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place Lt was for travellers to be much enter- 

 tained. It is now a moft eligible place for 

 thofe to live at who want a cheap and pri- 

 vate retirement. I was there two days j 

 and, in examining the place, I could have 

 hired a very good houfe, of five large rooms 

 on a floor, a garden of half an acre, an or- 

 chard well planted, and a fmali vineyard, 

 for 15!. a year; and of that rent, the fale 

 of fruit, beyond what a family could con- 

 fume, would generally pay 4!. or 5!. of it, 

 and the tenant to be at no other expence 

 than mere rent. Nor is houfe-rent the 

 only thing cheap here : fervants are to be 

 had for furprifing low wages, and provi- 

 fions are cheap ; bread about the price it is 

 in England, or fomething cheaper : beef, 

 which is excellent, 2d. halfpenny and 2d. 

 per pound ; mutton, which is not fo good, 

 2d. 3 veal, ad. j game, very cheap ; and 

 river fi(h, middling. With all thefe cir- 

 cumftances, it is evident a family might 

 live here upon 200!. a year, as well as in 

 England on 6ool. With this, the place is 

 clean, and the people very fociable and 

 civil to Grangers, and the country round it 

 fine. The cheapnefs of living in fome parts 



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