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fliiillingsa yavd^ and fo all forts of Gom- 
rnodities both for phnters and fifliermcn, as 
Cables, Cordage, Anchor?'^ Lines^ Hooks, 
Nets, Canvas for Sails, d^c. Bisket twenty 
five fliillings a hundred, Salt at an exceffivc 
rate, picklcd-herrin for winter bait Four and 
five pound a barrel ( with which they fpced 
not fb well as the waggifh lad at Cape-porpm^ 
who baited his hooks with the drown'd 
Negro's buttocks) fo for Pork and Becfi 
The planters arc or fliould be refllefs 
pains takers, providing for their Cattle, 
planting and fowing of Corn, fencing their 
grounds, cutting and bringing home fuel, 
cleaving of claw-board and pipe-flaves , 
fifliing for frefli water fifti and fowling takes 
up moft of their time, if not all the dili- 
gent hand makcth rich, but if they be of a 
droanifh difpofition as fome arc,they become 
wretchedly poor and miferable, (carce able 
to free thenifelves and family from impor- 
tunate famine, cfpecially in the winter for 
want of bread. 
They have a cuftom of taking Tobacco, 
ileeping at^ noon, fitting long at meals fome- 
times four times in a day, and now and then 
drinking a dram of the bottle extraodinari- 
ly; the tmoaking of Tobacco, if modcratc- 
. ly ufed refrtOieth the weary much, andfo 
doth lice p* * J 
