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fea: Into this likewife open three very no- 

 ble docks for building large (hips, admira- 

 bly contrived. Thefe three, Dry Pier, and 

 Old and South Docks, are all totally fur- 

 rounded by the town, (o that (hips of four, 

 five, fix, andfome of nine hundred tons bur- 

 then, lay their broad fides to the quays, and 

 goods are hoifted out of them, even into 

 many of the warehoufes of the merchants. 



A little out of the town is a very pretty 

 new walk, fpread on one fide with imall 

 plantations, and looking on the other down 

 upon the town and river : A coffee-houfe, 

 &c. built new upon it : It is lately done, 

 and a good improvement. 



There is a manufacture of porcelane at 

 this place, which employs many hands j the 

 men earn in it from 7 s. to iol a week. 

 Likewife a flocking manufactory, in which, 

 they earn from 7 s. to gs. Alfo two glafs- 

 houfes, in which the earnings are 9 s. or 

 10 j". a week. 



Poor rates in Liverpool is. in the pourd. 



Land, five miles round it, lets, at an 

 average, at 3 1 s. 6 d. per acre. 



They fuppofe the number of inhabitants 

 to be near forty thoufand. 



PROVISIONS, &c. 



Bread, 1 \ d. 

 Butter, 8 d. 18 oz. 

 Cheefe, 3' d. 



Beef, 



