24 7 &e Hiftory 
Purchafed for Three Pounds* 
within the fpace of Two Years, 
were fold fora Hundred Pounds 
a piece, and likewife fome Land 
that lies near the City, that 
Sixteen Years ago might have 
heen Purchas’d for Six or Eight 
Pounds the Hundred Acres, can- 
not now he bought under One 
Hundred and Fifty, or Two 
Hundred Pounds. 
Now the true Reafon why 
this Fruitful Countrey and Flo- 
rifhing City advance fo confi- 
derably m the Purchafe of Lands 
both in the one and the other, 
is their great and extended Traf- 
fique and Commerce both by 
Sea and Land, viz. to New -York, 
New- Engl an cl , Virginia , Mary- 
land, Carolina, Jamaica, Barba - 
dces , Nevis, Monferat, Antego , St. 
Criftophers, Barm-udo&s , New- Found- 
La? jd, Maderas, Saltetudeouz, and 
Old-En^land \ befides feveral o- 
ther places. Their Merchandize 
chiefly conhffs in Horfes , Pipe- 
Staves, 
