Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by George Moore
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Gratz, yellow seal, 1806 5 00
Do. green seal, 1806 5 00 Do. black seal, 1806 5 00 Do. red seal, bottled 1806 5 00 Wanton, exceedingly delicate, thirty years in wood, W. 5 00 John A. Gordon's Madeira, imported into Philadelphia 1798 5 00 Caroline, an old family-wine 5 00 Gordon, Buff, Inglis, and Co.'s, imported by H.G. Otis and Edward Tuckerman, Esq., 1811, G. 5 00 Stalk's Madeira, bottled in Calcutta, imported 1825 6 00 Hurd's Madeira, bottled in 1822 in Calcutta 5 00 Essex, Jr., imported 1819 6 00 Smith and Huggins, Dyker's White top, bottled in 1800 in St. Eustatia 7 00 Tuckerman's B., 1810 7 00 Thorndike's A., 1809 8 00 Wedding Wine 8 00 Gov. Philip's Wine 9 00 Gov. Kirby's original bottles, OO 12 00 * * * * * _Monday_ morning, the 2nd.--After breakfast despatched three-quarters of a hundred newspapers to my old and valued friends in England. They keep no stock on hand for promiscuous sale: they printed them on purpose for me. After which I visited the business parts. All the streets filled with empty cases, which they had just cleared for the Fall trade: auctioneers hammering away in all corners, knocking goods about as if they cost nothing. In the stores there appears no system--all is |
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