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a pick-axe without a handle, and one pound each of sugar, 
coffee and bar-soap. All the above were offered at cost “ to close 
the concern .” Every thing here was on the highest key. The 
town was only two months old, and lots were commanding New 
York prices. I was advised to embark in trade ; but my heart 
was in the high-land, and the next morning at nine o’clock, we 
were moving for the interior, a party of a dozen having hired 
a six mule-team. 
