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least, it is worth trial. The more sugar is used the 

 lefs is the need of frefhening. Here I cannot help re- 

 marking, how easily, even without culture, tama- 

 rind, cocoa nuts, limes and oranges, cajan pepper, "i^c, 

 would grow in the Bahama islands. The cocoa nut 

 tree delights in a sandj soil near the sea. The nut 

 must be gathered ripe, and bj all means kept in the 

 hufk ; a great manufacture of oil might be made from 

 them by boiling the bruised, nut, to supply the 

 West India islands ; and vinegar may be made of 

 its toddy. As the nut, when ripe, will keep many 

 months, I see no reason why they might not be used 

 at home, ifwhat I am going to say is put in practice. 



Let the beef killed for the navy be cut in small 

 slices from the bone, and preserved with one half salt, 

 and one half sugar. Let the hogs be ikinned, and 

 preserved in the same manner, cutting out, in both 

 beef and pork, the inside parts of the sirloins, whidi 

 ought to be preserved or cured by itself. The 

 ikin of the hogs will make stout leather, the bones 

 may certainly be put to some use, the juices of which, 

 when barrelled up, not coming into contact with the 

 salt, incline the whole to putrifaction ; and their 

 room saved in stowage is about one fourth part. 



I fhall suppose there is an iron pot for one hundred 

 men, in which I propose to drcfs them two meals a- 

 day, the first to be ready at eight or nine o'clock in 

 the morning, the second as fhall be found convenient, 

 and both to be drefsed in the following manner : 



For one meal for 100 men, let fifty ounces of 

 butter or oil, be put into the heated iron pot, this 

 ^vill immediately boil ; to this add 200 ounces of pork, 

 and 300 ounces of beef, the pork first, (this makes ten 



