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tural history and commerce of Mcxicoj to 

 gold and silver. A garden of cacas is said to 

 produce the owner twenty thousand crowns a 

 year. 



Chocolate was not known in England 

 until the eleventh year of the reign of Henry 

 the Eighth, although twenty-three years had 

 elapsed since Columbus had discovered the 

 country of which it is a native. 



Chocolate is esteemed the most restora- 

 tive of all aliments, insomuch that one ounce 

 of it is said to nourish as much as a pound 

 of beef. 



An acquaintance, on whose veracity I 

 can rely, informed me, that during the re- 

 treat of Napoleon's army from the North, 

 he fortunately had a small quantity of little 

 chocolate cakes in his pocket, which pre- 

 served the life of himself and a friend for se- 

 veral days, when they could procure no other 

 food whatever, and many of their brother 

 officers had perished for want. 



In all countries where chocolate is known, 

 it is esteemed, and found to be a suitable 

 diet for all ages, more particularly for infants, 

 old persons, those of consumptive habits, 

 and such as are recovering from sickness. 



It is related in Hawkes worth's Voyages, 

 that Commodore Byron, in his passage through 



