BOOK HI. CHAP. VII. 685 



no rum, or other fpecies of freight, that will impregnate them with 

 a detrimental flavour. It certainly deferves the attention of the 

 planters in this ifland to improve this article to their utmoft, and not 

 to have fo much regard to the quantity, as to the quality of it ; for, 

 altliough the former may plaufibly appear to have the advantage in 

 profit, it certainly has not, lince the goodnefs of every commodity 

 always claims the preference at market, commands the beft price, 

 and becomes the quickeft in demand. 



Eight Negroes are equal to clean and gather from fifty to fixty 

 acres, and upwards, according to the bearing of the trees ; and fifty 

 acres will yield, at leaft, ^oo I. per annum, if well taken care of. I 

 have known a man, with two affiftauts, manage a walk of thirty 

 acres, befidcs attending other work. 



An ingenious gentleman, fome years ago, caufed a pound of coffee 

 to be analyfed by diflillation, and found it yield, 



5 3 G 

 Spirit, or Phlegm, 660 



Oil, 242 



Caput mortuum, S 3 '^ 



It yielded almolt double as much oil, as horfe-beans ; and almoft 

 treble as much, as wheat. 



The virtues of it are thought to confift in its oil. The feparation 

 of this oil is promoted by roafting; and it is what gives the pe- 

 culiar flavour to the infufion ; for the raw berries impart none but 

 what is very difagreeable, and unattended with the efFe£ts peculiar to 

 roailed coffee. Taken in moderation, it is allowed, by phyficians, to 

 exhilarate the Spirits ; quicken the action of the flomach ; difpel the 

 load and pams in the head, proceeding from faulty digeflion ; and to 

 cLar the ideas. It is moft appropriated to moift, phlegmatic tempera- 

 ments ; and, though decried by fome writers, is experimentally found 

 medicinal and innocent, if never taken in exceis. 



Per flat. 5. Geo. HI. c. xliii. §. 3^, coffee muft be imported into 

 Greit-Bniaiti in packages of one hundred and twelve pounds weight nert 

 at leaft, and fto-vcd openly in the <hip, or veirel('/. e. not fecreted), on 

 penalty of forfeiture f/w]. 



4. Cotton. 



[r.l in the pamphlet * lately publiiheil by Mr. Ellis, agent for (he iilanil of Dominica, are feveral 

 very .v...filjle remarks, w.iich are pertinent to th s tubjet. The whole cf that cscellcnt Iktlc traft 



* Hiftoricil Accjunt of CofTee, 8»c. 1774. 



deferves 



