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OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



241 



Sucking pigs, 6s. 



A full-grown hog, from 3I. to 

 3I. 1 OS. 



Turkeys, per couple, 2I. 2 s. 



Ducks, per couple, 10s. 



Laying hens, each 5s. 



A full-grown cock, 4s. 



Half-grown fowls, 2s. 



Chickens fix weeks old, per cou- 

 ple, 2S. 



Frefh pork, per pound, o,d. 



Mutton, per pound, from 2 s. to 

 2s. 6d. 



Kangooroo, per pound, 4d. 

 Salt pork, per pound, gd. 

 Salt beef, per pound, 6d. 



GROCERIES. 



Tea, green, from 12s. to 16s. 

 Tea, black, from 10s. to 12s. 

 Loaf fugar, per pound, 2s. 6d. 

 Fine moid ditto, 2s. 

 Coarfe moid ditto, is. 6d. 



Butter, from 2s. per pound to 2s. 

 6d. 



Cheefe, from 2s. per pound to 2s. 

 6d. 



Soap, per pound, from 2s. to 3s. 

 Tobacco, per pound, from is. to 

 is. 6d. 



Lamp oil, made from mark's liver, 

 per gallon, 4s. 



WINE, SPIRITS, — PORTER, 



Jamaica rum, per gallon, from 11. 



to il. 8s. 

 Rum (American), from 16s. per 



gallon to il. 

 Coniac brandy, per gallon, from 



1 6s. to il. 4s. 

 Cape brandy, per gallon, from 1 6s. 



to Itl. 



Cherry brandy, per dozen, 3I. 12s. 

 Wine (Cape Madeira) per gall. 12s. 

 Porter, per gallon, from 4s. to 

 6s. 



The high prices of wine, fpirits, and porter, proceeded not only 

 from their fcarcity, but from the great avidity with which they were 

 procured by the generality of the people in thefe fettlements, with 

 whom money was of fo little value, that the purchafer had been often 

 known (inftead of afking) to name himfelf a price for the article that 

 he wanted, fixing it at as high again as would otherwife have been 

 required of him. 



The live {lock in the country belonging to individuals was confined 

 to three or four perfons, who kept up the price in order to create an 

 intereft in the prefervation of it. An Englifh cow, in calf, was fold 

 by one officer to another for eighty pounds ; and the calf, which 



1 1 proved 



