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Perhaps it is profeffional, but it has ever 

 been a principle, with me, to exert my firft: 

 care for thofe who are in ficknefs, confcious 

 that thofe in health will fuffer lefs from oc- 

 cafional deficiency: and the gratification I 

 experience in feeing the poor obje&s, who are 

 looking up to me, well fupplied and content- 

 ed, reconciles all difficulties, while it aflfures 

 me that the maxim is correct. - 



Not having frefh animal provifions, an 

 ample fupply of vegetables is, abfolutely, ne- 

 ceffary to diminifh the faltnefs of the broths, 

 and mefles, which we are compelled to pre- 

 pare, from barrelled beef and pork, for the 

 fick. Had my purchafe, therefore, engroffed 

 every yam and potatoe of the market, feel- 

 ings of humanity, no lefs than imperious ne- 

 ceffity, would have fandioned the monoply. 



It will, perhaps, furprize you to learn 

 that, among our marketings, I purchafed a 

 large hamper of pines, nearly as heavy as 

 a negro could carry, for, only, the fmall fum 

 of three bits. On counting them over, I 

 found that I had feventeen fine large pines 

 for only fifteen-pence, being fomewhat lefs 



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