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we have already wrote you that we sent 3660 bushells of yr Salt to Hallifax the Remndr we put on Board a Sloop for Georgia & when on board we sold it for 10d pence this Money p bushell say for 2500 bushells (this we though[t] would be more to yr advantage in the End tho we are obliged to give Six Months Credit) than to have shipped on your own Acct & we are sure that your salt will tum out more to your Advantage in the End than a Cargo of the Same article that came here the same time from Bristol did for the owner² upon the whole we hope you will be satisfyed that we have done for you as if the Interest had been our own.