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SCGCJ.767.066
18 Aug 1767:21 (89)
London . . . May 16. Advices of great importance are arrived
from North-America. They are said to be very disagreeable
in their tendency. The colonists plead their poverty, with
what truth we may judge from private letters lately received
from those parts, some of which give us to understand, that
the number of carriages kept in new-York has, in about four
years, increased from 5 to 70. -- Some houses are let there
for 200 L. per annum. At Philadelphia a play-house is
built, and as much frequented by the Quakers, as by those
who have fewer external marks of religion. Cock-fighting,
fox-hunting, horse-racing, and every other expensive
diversion, are in great vogue in the colonies, yet the
colonists pretend they are not able to pay towards the
support of their government.
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