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fright 3 they then haften in at the old one's Mouthy 

 in order to fecure themfeives from harm. 



27. Ginger, is a Root that fends up a ftraight 

 and knobbed Stock better than a foot high, the 

 top whereof is ornamented with a round of long 

 and narrow Leaves, not unlike to our EngliJIj 

 Peach-tree Leaves. The planting of it was neg- 

 lected in my time. And indeed the Indico Works 

 wxre then wholly laid afide. However, I faw fome 

 few of the Indico Plants grow wild, that were 

 about three foot high, branching out from the 

 main Stock divers ways ; their roundifh Leaves 

 (as broad as a Six-pence) as well as the Stock and 

 Boughs, were of a dull, but deep Green Colour^ 

 inclining to Brown : The Bufh is cut up, then 

 bruifed, boiled, and put into aCiflern of water, &c^ 

 in order to extradt from it the pure Indico, which 

 will fettle at Bottom. But for a right account of 

 Indico- making, you muft confult Sir Hans Sloan 

 in Volume 2. Page 35. As for a defcription of 

 Sugar-making, I refer you to Herman Moll's 

 Britifi Empire in America^ about it. Purflain, 

 at our Bath-Plain Plantation was reckoned one 

 of the woril Weeds we had belonging to us. Our 

 Allocs there are entirely neglecfled. 



28. In paragraph 25^^ of this Letter, I forgot 

 to bid you recoUedt, That St. Vincenf^ and the 

 other Cape deFerdIi['a.nds (which have this modern 

 Name from Cape Verd on the Ccaft oi Africa) 



were 



