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either for a certain quantity of victual yearly, 

 the iron furnimec] by the . employer, or by the 

 weight of the wrought iron, \\hen furnished by 

 the smith. The iron-work rates, if coarse, at 

 5 d., and if fine, at 6 d. per lib. 



SECT. II. PROVISIONS. 



FROM the great progress which agriculture 

 has lately made, and from the fertility of the 

 cultivated grounds, the produce, taking every 

 kind of grain into the account, is, in general, 

 more than sufficient to supply the inhabitants. 

 The culture of oats, it is true, is not so exten- 

 sive as to furnish a sufficiency of oat-meal, es- 

 pecially as the consumption of oats by horses, 

 has, of late years, greatly encreased. Every 

 year, therefore, there is a considerable importa-, 

 tion of this article. But this deficiency is more 

 than balanced by the great annual exportation 

 of wheat and barley and beans. The prices will 

 appear from the following state of the Fiars for 

 the last IQ years. 



