The wild game of the woods, as pigeons, doves, and partridges, which, though at times, in the ſeaſons for killing them, are very plentiful, yet bear a moſt extravagant price; a wild pigeon will coſt 3s. a dove or partridge 1s. 6d. and other ſmall birds of the country are at a very high rate. This is entirely owing to the want of laws for regulating the prices of thofe neceſſary articles in the iſland; as thoſe who make a trade of them have the liberty of fixing what price they pleaſe; thereby being guilty of great extortion, to the ſenſible inconvenience of the inhabitants.
Eggs and milk are tolerably reaſonable, and the latter is in general very good; but thoſe who chiefly ſupply the market with it, adulterate it.
Notwithſtanding fiſh of all ſorts are caught in great plenty in all the bays of the iſland,
