1 39 For remarks,&c OBSERVATIONS.

The preceding advantages of markets,&c. are strikingly ob- vious; and though the benefits of such excellent navigation can- not be obtained, where nature with-holds them, yet the laudable custom that still exists at Newbury, of a pitched market, is so conducive to the comfort of the lower classes of mankind, that it is to be wished, it may be long continued; and much to be lamented, that monopolizers in most other parts of the kingdom, have contrived to draw, from this most valuable class, a profit of at least 20 per cent. to themselves, without any benefit resulting

from it, even to the farmers.

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