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 muft aftonifli all who hear it, that have 

 ever had experience what the fame things 

 in England would come to. It is an en- 

 quiry worthy the attention of people who 

 make fuch obje&s their ftudy, what are the 

 caufes and confequences of fuch cheapnefs. 

 The extreme dearnefs of every thing in 

 England muft, to numerous ranks of people, 

 be a moft infupportable burthen, and fuch 

 as they cannot even bear : it muft drive 

 them for refuge to countries where their 

 fmall incomes will enable them to live more 

 at their eafe. Certainly, if we are to judge, 

 from this circymftance of what I could have 

 been boarded for at Manrefa, how far a 

 given fum would go in Catalonia, on compa- 

 rifon with England, there is reafon to think, 

 that, for lool. a year there a man would 

 live as well as for 500!. or 6ool. a year in 

 England j and I have been afTu red, that, in 

 feveral parts of France, particularly in the 

 iauth, out of the ufual routes of the Eng- 

 lifh, or other foreigners, that icol. a year 

 will go as far as 300!. in England, though 

 you take the cheapeft counties. 



The 1 4th, I reached Barcelona, which 

 is really a very fine place, admirably Btuated, 



carrying 



