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carrying the Goods to the best Market; which they may
as well do as stand idle in the Stable.

Thus it is that without the reproach of being called
a Merchant, he has better means of carrying on
Merchandize than if he were one.

I will give you an example or two of the advantages
that are to be made by read Money. The Hides
that he has taken of the Prince as Part of the Stock of
the Leather-Fabric, to the number of 2, or 3000, cost
one with another, a Ruble a Piece, (ie, 100d Copecs)
now by sending from market to market, he is
buying as good for 50 or 40 Copecs — Tar the Prince's
Steward would give him or any body 20 Copecs a
pound for, ready money, for the Rope Fabric, taking
at that rate between 3, and 4000 Poods, a year,
now he finds it may be had, a few Poods at a time,
for 15, or even so low as 10 Copecs a pood, and he
only waits the result of the Enquiries he is making
into the quantity of Poods, that can be got at this
lower price, in order to contract for supplying the
Article at the higher.

Wax, when he was at Riga, he found the Merchants
there paying for, at the rate of 13 rixdollars a pood;
now in this Neighbourhood he finds it is to be had
at 10, or 9 Rubles a Pood, and a Rixdollar is
worth more than a Ruble by about ¼ — now
the Carriage from hence to Riga would not amount
to half a Ruble a Pood, were he to hire Carriers, —
which he has no need to do — Here there would be
a gain of 60 pCent, upon the supposition that, the
Riga Price continues the Same, at the time by which he

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Date_1	1786-03-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	253	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence/copy	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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