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PROVISIONS, £\. 

 Bread, 10 \d. the half- peck loaf. 

 Cheefe, 4 \ d. 

 Butter, 6 Id. to jd* 

 Beef, 2 \ d. 

 Mutton, 3 \ d« 

 Veal, 3 § d. 

 Pork, 4.d. 

 Milk, 1*/. /wpint. 

 Potatoes, 5 j-. 

 Houfe rent, 4/. to 6/. 



Gardens here lett from 2 /. 2 x. to 5 /. 5 j. 

 an acre. 



Paffing through London, I returned home 

 by Highgate and Barnet y through a prodi- 

 gious line track of grafs farms, that lett 

 from 1 /. 15 s. to 4 /. an acre. But when 

 palled Barnet, the foil declines greatly, and 

 falls in rent to iSs. 1 /. and 1 /. 10 s. and in 

 a few miles gets down to l $s. on an average. 



Rnfield-chace cannot be viewed by any 

 lover of his country, or of husbandry, with- 

 out much regret ; fo large a track of wafte 

 land, fo near the capital, within the reach 

 of London^ as a market, and a dunghill, is 

 a real nuifance to the public. The foil is 

 capable of yielding any production, being 

 either a rich clay, or a good gravel ; the 

 luxuriant growth of the fpontaneous pro- 

 ductions prove fufficiently what the culti- 

 vated ones might be : If this track of ufe- 



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