Provifions here feem to have a remarkable 

 effect on the rates ; the progreffive propor- 

 tion is not broken ; but then the advances are 

 fo prodigious, that one fcarcely knows how 

 to account for them. A farthing a pound 

 makes a rife of 9 d. in the rates; and a half- 

 penny of 1 s. y d.\. Three farthings raife 

 them to 2 s. 3 d. f , Now this is out of all 

 proportion, that rates mould in one inftance 

 be trebled, and in another more than doubled, 



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