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484 NOTES.

Ship-carpenters’ wages were exorbitant four or five years ago, having L.6 to LB per month, and provisions, lodgings, and grog given them besides. '

In Quebec, St John's, and a few other places, provisions were not included; but the difference of wages was made equivalent; scarcely any of these men, however, had sufficient prudence to save their earnings, and are now much less employed.

Joiners, who find their own provisions, receive from 65. to 7s. per day. Blacksmiths, stone—masons, shoemakers, and tailors, are usu- ally paid so much for what they do, and the price of their labour is generally very high.

Wages of labour, and the prices of articles, vary in America as they do in England; the foregoing, however, may be considered as

the general rates.

END OF VOLUME FIRST.

ElJlNlSUHGH! PRINTED lSV BALLANTYNE AND ()(Hll'ANY, PA [This “'0th CANONGA'I'E.