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through the Ifland on an average of five years, it may be 

 ftated thus: 



The failure of the oyfter trade, which before the prefent 

 war, was carried on to a very confiderable extent, has 

 fubjedled the principal occupiers of the Ifland to an in- 

 creafed burthen in the poor's rates of from 2s. to 4s. in 

 the pound. The tythes, great and fmall, including the 

 embanked marflies, are compounded at 3s. 6d. per acre. 



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