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Buds of each Plant, that the Leaves may be the better, they ga. 
ther the Leaves when they are at cheir full growth, and in vi- 
gour, and dry them by hanging them upin the fhade. The beft 
‘Tobacco made by the Spaniards in their Plantations is pick’d Leaf 
by Leaf, with great care that none faulty may be found amongft 
it. That from the Nuevo Reyno de Granada (corruptly called Veri- 
nas, or Tabac de Verine) is reckon’d the belt. | we 
Tobacco is likewife planted in other places of the Ifland, and is 
of feveral forts, from feveral Seeds: that with the broad Leaves is 
call’d Bulls Face. There are two forts from Oronogue, and two 
Spanifh kinds. [tis fownin Beds; when the Leaves are about two 
Inches long, the Plants are drawn, and planted at four Foot di- 
ftance one way, and three and an half another, then they are kept 
clean, and when grown about a Foor high, and going to {hoot out 
their Stalks or Tops, the top of the Stalk or Bud is {nipt off. Thac 
day feven-night the Buds rifing ex alis foliorum on che fides, are 
{nipt off likewife, and feven days thence the other Under-buds. Ie 
ftands forme time longer, and then the Stalks and Leaves are 
cut off, hang’d up in a Shed, and if wet weather come, a Fire 
is made in it to hinder the Corruption of the Tobacco. Some 
time after the Leaves are ftripc off and preferv'd in great 
heaps from the injuries of the Air till ’tis made fic for the Mar 
ket. It has been made here worth twelve Pence a Pound in 
England. | ; 
The Head of the River Mino is far up from this place, and there 
is a Lake where I have been told are to be feen great heaps of 
Snakes roll’d together, who leap into the Water. Abundance of 
Fifh comes from thence. There were.a. great variety of Water- 
Melons here in che Spaniards time.» The Cows eat them, and 
dunging, their Seeds, (at this Dry River, where they came to 
water,) there grew, and were preferv'd, till perfect neglect Loft all 
their forts. 
_ Very good Fullers Earth was taken out of a Stratum of the Earth, 
in finking a Well here. I did not obferve any difference in the 
Layers of Earth taken out of this Well, from thofe in England, nei- 
ther could I find any Shells or Petrefaétions amongft the Stones, 
Clay, Sand, vc. brought up. ButI was inform’d, upon enquiry, 
by Colonel Nedbam, an Eye-Witnels, that in Barbados at Sit John 
Colleton’s Plantation they dug for a Well, and at forty feven Foor 
had water, but in dry weather it went away: they dug to fifty, 
and had water a fecond time, which dryed away again; alter a 
third digging they came to fome Shells, and then into a River, 
and taking up water they brought up Fifh with ic. After this cheir 
water never decay’d; tho’ there wer etcwelve Men perpetually draw- 
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