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... Edinburgh, Jan. 22. The Scarcity in the Weft Country is relieved by the Importation of a confiderable Quantity of Oatmeal and Potatoes, 50 Tons of the former arriving laft Week for the Ufe of the Inhabitants of Greenock ; but however favourable this was to ...
... we are 1 an undone Nation. * Laft Year's Froft is felt more fevere here than in other * Countries, having deilroy'd the Potatoes (which are tiie ' chief Support of our Poor) in fuch a manner, that the * lame Quantity we ufed to buy for Two pence Half-penny ...
... Misfortunatej, fince they were taken Care of. a Quarter of a Yard fquare. Their common Dyet was Bran and Water, and fometimes a Potato.. One of thefa peor mlsfortunate Creatures had been in this rrrife-rabje Confinement eight Years, the other not fo long : ...
... Service : Ana the. poorer People, by the Propoii- tion his Kighnefs has ir.ad2 to the tJlitte.% to Icffun the double Duty on Potatoes, the Moutrc paid for grinding Rye, and to find out fomu Mcr.ns thai they may have their Tiring, particularly Turf, ts cheap ...
... &c. VIII. Pt- etryi To Mifs Polly Aftâ ll; on Belinda; Diana's Power ; Thomas and Anne ; Celia and the Dean, imitated ; Potatoes and Hemp ; the Art of making Pudding* ; on a myllerious Colfee-houfe Ode ;on a Friend's Marriage ; the Faithful Shepherdefs ...
... loft. Sii next Pofl. From Ireland we hear, that the hard Froft laft Winter lias in a great Meafure deitroy'd their Crop of Potatoes, on which the Support of their Poor fo much depends « befides the Weather having been very wet and cold this Summer the Com ...
... B. According to other Accounts, the Taxes already taken off in the Province of Utrecht, are thofe upon Coffee, Tea, cud Potatoes, and the additional Impofi on Tobacco. 'J he following Speech of the Prince of Orange to the States of Holland, is pub- lifhtd ...
... 0 ;f and the Corn blafted. The Apples fuffered by the , Froft all about us : And I obferved in fome Places, t that' the Potatoes which were fet in the White Earth, fuf- i fcred moft ; the Stalks were withered^ and produced no- , t h Jn g but fmall Fruit ...
... Gut. N . B. According to other Accounts, the Taxes already taken Off in the Province of Utrecht, arc thofe ?? re, Tea, e.ud Potatoes, and the additional Impoft en Tobacco. The following Speech of ihe Prince tf Orange to the States of Htlland, is pub- lifhed ...
... and the Corn blafted. The Apples fuffered by the . fiffis Froft all about us : And I obferved in fomc Places, 1 that ?? c Potatoes which were fet in the White Earth, fuf- = fcrcd rnoft I the Stalks were withered, and produced no- thing but fnall Fruit ...
... Vinegar, for the Service of the Fleet in the Weft-Indies. For his Majefty's Ships in thofe Parts likewife fome hundred Tons of Potatoes have been bought up. The Jamaica Fleet, confifting of eight Ships, are cxpcsfled between this and Chriftmas, when we are ...