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of a plum-cake, its taste is far from being 

 disagreeable ; — this they call Pone. With 

 the expressed liquor of the potatoe is made 

 what we call Mobby, a sort of cool drink, 

 answering to small beer in England. The 

 method of making this is, to mix the raw 

 expressed juice of the potatoes with a certain 

 quantity of water ; this will soon ferment in a 

 seasoned vessel, and in about twenty-four 

 hours be ready for use : its taste is cool and 

 sharp, and it is generally esteemed a healthy 

 liquor. The juice likewise of potatoes, if fer- 

 mented, will by distillation yield good spirits. 

 The potatoes of Barbadoes differ from the 

 English potatoe, by being propagated by a 

 slip of the vine ; this vine trailing close to the 

 ground takes root with its numerous joints, 

 and these, burrowing in the ground, bear 

 a great number of potatoes, which have all a 

 sweetish taste. Mr. Hughes does not notice 

 the Virginia potatoe. 



Potatoes were scarcely known in the East 

 Indies thirty years ago; but they are now 

 produced in such abundance, that the na- 

 tives in some places make considerable use 

 of them. Bombay is supplied chiefly with 

 this excellent root from Guzerat. 



