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place during the day fcix and a fourth cents : shoeing and casual™ 
ties six and a fourth cents. Total expence of a horse per day, 
travelling from 35 to 45 miles, one dollar. 
Allowance to myself. Breakfast 25 cents : cold meal, or check 
at stopping 12 1-2 cents : supper 25 cents: liquor during the day- 
25 cents, being half a pint of spirituous drink : bed 12 1-2 cents : 
total 100 cents. Such at least were the prices from 1800 to 1812 
in this state. 
Again: at the present day 1814, the expence of a horse at 
livery at Carlisle is 120 dollars: to which shoeing is to be added. 
The expences of travelling have encreased about one third within 
these two years : partly owing to a state of hostility, and partly to 
the almost sudden introduction of the paper of so many banks. 
So that still a horse and a man travel as to necessaries at about the 
same rate per diem. 
Calculations of this kind, may be considered as useful exerci- 
ses in political arithmetic. I have often wished to see a set of 
questions published as exercises, in general and local statistics : 
and the same with a view to render chemical calculations also fa- 
miliar to a student. T. C. 
When I had composed the above, I met with the following re- 
marks of a similar nature from the Quarterly Review, No. 19, 
which gives a somewhat different aspect of the same subject. 
Leaving the further discussion of this topic to wiser heads than 
pur own, we will now conclude our article with a few remarks on 
the general subject of subsistence and population. 
“ It has been generally supposed that about one quarter* of 
wheat, convertible into about 480lbs. of bread, is sufficient for the 
annual sustenance of an individual, on an average of all ages. If 
this were true, it would evidently be easy to ascertain, in any coun- 
try of which the extent and population were accurately known, 
the average annual consumption and reproduction of food, to esti- 
mate the degree of comfort enjoyed by the inhabitants of such 
country, Sec. But the number and variety of articles really em- 
ployed for the purpose of food are so great, as to throw consider- 
able doubts on the truth of this approximation, and it is pefhaps 
impossible to furnish any which shall be free from considerable 
error ; and it may be of some advantage to know the attempts 
which have been made elsewhere to solve this intricate problem, 
and we shall therefore here state the supposed proportion of anl- 
* Eight bushels. 
Nn 
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