This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...the coast of France."Mrs. Cobbett, with her two sons and three daughters, "sailed from Liverpool, on the 16th, in the Aurora, for New "York. "The papers speak of the universal revival of trade in allparts of the kingdom, and particularly of the rise of cotton "and linen goods. "Paris papers to the 13th contain nothing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...the coast of France."Mrs. Cobbett, with her two sons and three daughters, "sailed from Liverpool, on the 16th, in the Aurora, for New "York. "The papers speak of the universal revival of trade in allparts of the kingdom, and particularly of the rise of cotton "and linen goods. "Paris papers to the 13th contain nothing of interest. "Desbands and Chayoux, who plotted the assassination of "Monsieur and son, had been shot in the plain of Grenoble. "Lord Wellington had been non-suited in his prosecu"tion of the printer of the Ghent Journal, and adjudged to "pay the costs. It is said the duke had appealed from this "decision." TRADE AND MANUFACTURES. The woollen manufactory, the steam gristmill, and a glass-house, are on a tolerably large scale: the two former are said not to pay the proprietors. In the main street, English goods abound in as great profusion as in Cheapside. A first-rate shop sells everything; keeps a stock of from 20 to 30,000 dollars; annual returns may TRADE. be 50,000 dollars, upon half of which they give from 6 to 18 months' credit. Some of their goods they import direct from England, but more commonly purchase at Philadelphia; their journey for which purpose, to and from that city, occupies them three months: goods average 50 days in arriving. A house at Pittsburgh advances money in payment of carriage, and attends to the receipt of the goods by waggon and their shipment by boats, for which the dealer here pays 5 per cent. commission. The credit which they receive at Philadelphia is from six to seven months, but they can seldom pay at the specified time, and are then charged 7 per cent, interest. Shopkeeping has been very profitable, but it certainly is now very much over-done...
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All Editions of Sketches of America, a Narrative of a Journey Through the Eastern and Western States, with Remarks on Mr. Birkbeck's 'Notes' and 'Letters'.
