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 women earn about 2 s. 6d or 3/. a week. 

 Girls of 13 or 14, earn 1 s. Rd. a week. A 

 boy of 8 or 9 at ditto i\ d. a day ; of fix 

 years old, 1 d. a day. The bufmefs of this 

 town flourished greatly during the war, 

 but funk much at the peace, and conti- 

 nued very languid till within thefe two 

 years, when it began to rife again. 



PROVISIONS, &c. 



Much oat bread eat, 10 or 1 1 ounces for 1 d. 

 Butter, - Sd. per lb. 18 or 19 ounces. 

 Chcefe, - 4 Pork - ^ 4^. 



Mutton, - 4 Bacon, - 7 



Beef, - 4 Veal, - 24. 



Milk, a pint in fummer 2, in winter 1 S-d, 



and 1 d. 

 Manufacturer's houfe rent, 40 j-. 

 Their firing, 20 s. 



The country from Leeds to Tadcajler is 

 fine, and to JVinmoor, a flrong blue clay 

 foil, with noble crops on it Around Kid- 

 del, land inclofed lets at about 8 s. orgs. 

 an acre ; it is generally limeflone with a 

 covering of various forts, but chiefly clay : 

 Farms from :o/. to 150/ a year; the 

 courfe, 



1. Fallow 3. Oats 



2. Wheat or barley 4. Barley, &c. 

 They plough three or four times for 



wheat, fow three bufhels, and gain in re- 

 turn 1 3 or 20. For barley they plough 

 3 five 



