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advertisers vending- at such extraordinary prices, will be explained to the satisfaction of my Readers. A SCALE, Showing the number of bottles of either size required to take three gallons of liquid, according to the old measure, to fill them, and the proportionate alteration in price, occasioned by the use of each of them, in bottling a pipe of Port of the standard quan- tity of 138 gallons, (equivalent to 115 gallons of the new Im- perial measure), supposed to cost the Dealer 761. with all ex- peuces included, and allowing three gallons (agreeable to the old measure) to be deducted as the bottoms :