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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.
82. For taking up ballast.
83. For buying and fitting out ships to suppress pirates.
84. For the importation of timber from Wales. Capital, two millions.
85. For rock-salt.
86. For the transmutation of quicksilver into a malleable fine metal.
CHANGE-ALLEY.[1]
Besides these bubbles, many others sprang up daily, in-spite of the condemnation of the government and the ridicule of the still sane portion of the public. The print-shops teemed with caricatures, and the newspapers with epigrams and satires, upon the prevalent
- ↑ Stock-jobbing Card, or the humours of Change Alley. Copied from a print called Bubblers' Medley, published by Carrington Bowles.
