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its trade (Philadelphia, 1721); and the anonymous The interest of the country in laying duties: or a discourse shewing how duties on some sorts of Merchandize may make the Province of New York richer than it would be without them (New York, n. d. [1726]). To the last tract two replies were published in the same year. It was not until the middle of the century that we again find any discussion of taxation in Some observations on the Bill Intitled an Act for granting to his Majesty an Excise upony, Suffield [Conn.], 1800, p. 16. Cooper has Noah Webster's own creatur , ventur , f'erce. Sarpint, desarted, vartue, lamed, s'ile, app'inted, expl'ite can all be found recommended in grammars of the eighteenth century. The Oxford spelling Book (1726) says that sigh is pronounced sithe according to the common way of speaking, just as Natty Bumppo pronounces it. His ven'son is still good English. His consait (conceit), ginerous, fri'nd, 'arth sound Irish, but that is as much as to say that the