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5094. MARKETS, Steady.—

Sudden vicissitudes
of opening and shutting ports do
little injury to merchants settled on the opposite
[British] coast, watching for the opening,
like the return of a tide, and ready to
enter with it. But they ruin the adventurer
whose distance requires six months' notice.—
To Count de Montmorin. Washington ed. ii, 525.
(P. 1788)