MISCELLANEOUS ANECDOTES. 
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per week for carriage, then, in the aggregate, the whole teu 
thousand consume live hundred per head weekly ; that is, 
rather over seventy-one snails for each individual daily. 
Here it must appear evident to every one, from the high 
-price of these snails, that they are not the food of the poor^ 
but the luxury of the rich ; for what poor person could 
afford to lay out ten and sixpence a week for snails. 
l!^ow may we not fairly ask which any one would soonest 
have for dinner — a roasted monkey, a boiled sermulot with 
onion sauce, or seventy-one snails 1 
