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Low Land clear'd of Wood is very proper for Hay, which has 
been here made in very few days, and feeds Horfes very well, but 
the greateft pare of the Nourifhment of Horfes is Scotch Grals, and 
Indian Corn, 
After Seafons, i, ¢. three or four, or more days Rain, all manner 
of Provifions, Maiz, Guinea Corn, Peafe, Patatas, Yams, Plan- 
tains, ¢c. are planted. The Ground, after thefe Grains and Provi- 
fions are gathered, is clear’d, before they expect a new Seafon, of 
the remaining Weeds, Stalks and Rubbifh, which are puc in heaps 
and burnt. : 
Their new clear’ Grounds are too rich, thofe which have been 
manurd for a long time need Dung, which now they begin co look 
after, not burning their Trafh as formerly, bur keeping it in great 
heaps to rot, in time to make the better Dung. 
The Stalks of Guinea-Corn and trafh, (that is the marc, or re- 
maining part of the Sugar Canes, after the Expreffion ot the Juice 
whereof Sugar is made, ) is ufed in Barbados, for fire wood, in three 
or four of che Stoke-holes, where a lefs degree of Fire is {uff- 
cient, and begins to be in ule in Jamaica, in places where Fire-wood 
is {carce. : 
In places clear’d, and ruin’d or grown wild again, the feveral forts 
of fcandent or climbing Plants, efpecially Convolyuli, do fo much 
abound and profper, that there is no pafling without a Bill to cut 
ones way ; they are fo high, as not only to mount up the young Shrubs 
but even to the tops of the talleft Trees, whence they hang down, 
and often pull down the Trees with them. 
.. Trees faln in the Path, and turning to Mould or Earth, I have 
obferv’d here to yield juft the fame: fort of Earth for. colour, wc. as 
the Soil is, in which they grew. 
The Meat of tie Inhabitants of Jamaica, is generally {uch as is 
in England, as Beef, Pork, and Fifh, falted and preferved, and 
fent from hence and Ireland, Flour, Peafe, falted Mackrels, ee. 
from thefe Places, and New-England, or New-York ; on which not 
only the Mafters feed, but allo they are oblig’d to furnifh their 
Servants both Whites and Blacks with three Pounds of Salc-Beet, 
Pork, or Fifh, every week, befides Caffada Bread, Yams, and Pa- 
tatas, which they eat as Bread, and is the natural Product of the 
Country. 
Although there is here in the Savannas great plenty of Cattle, 
yet they cannot keep Beef paft fome few days, and that falted, 
otherwife in three or four hours “tis ready to corrupt. Butchers al- 
ways kill in the morning juft before day, and by feven a Clock the — 
Markets for Flefh-Meat are over. 
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