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cheap as in New York, the reason being that the merchants 

 have very light freights to pay on these and other bulky 

 articles, because they are usually brought by the lumber 

 schooners as return freight. They carry freight to Florida 

 cheaply, as they would otherwise have to come in ballast. 



Householders near the seaports, Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore, who already possess the needful 

 furniture and can make arrangements to ship it by schooner 

 to Fernandina or Jacksonville, will save a great deal by 

 doing so, and land their household goods on their new home 

 site cheaper than they could purchase them. When it is 

 desired to ship by schooner to the nearest point, and that 

 point is south of Palatka, it is sometimes possible to find a 

 vessel bound to the latter place. Always, when it is pos- 

 sible, the settler should ship his goods at least two weeks 

 ahead of his own departure, if he wishes to find them await- 

 ing him ; three weeks are not too much if sent by schooner, 

 and, in the latter case, it is usual to have the goods in- 

 sui*ed. 



