36 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



piece of chocolate weighs one pound. If cho» 

 colate is to be made for drinking, you take 

 fuch a piece to ten dimes of water ; it is bro- 

 ken, and whilfl it is boiling it is flirred with a 

 ladle, the thicken: end of which comes to the 

 bottom of the chocolate-pot which it fills. 

 At each filling of a dim, they ftir it over 

 again. It is probable that the manner of 

 preparing it is the reafon why it has a better 

 taite here than in Sweden, though they do 

 not mix the vanilla (Epidendrum vanilla 

 Linn.), a very precious American fruit, with 

 it. I never faw tea or coifee drank here. 



The tradefmen are Frenchmen, English- 

 men, or Italians, who work pretty well, but 

 demand exhorbitant prices. Cloth and fluff 

 ure generally imported by the French, Eng- 

 lifh, and Italian merchants. 



The Exchange was kept in a broad flreet 

 called Calla nueva, or New-dreet, clofe to 

 the market. During the time that the mer- 

 chants arc afTemblccl in it, the opening of the 

 ftreet towards the market is fhut up by a bar, 

 &5 is ufual at our cuilom-houfes, 



Ts-is 



