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as by my own experience I found it to be moft true, though I lapp’d 
them clofe up in papers, and putthemin drawers of a Cabinet, where 
no aire could find pallage, they were fo clofesand for Paftills, they loft 
both their {mell and tafte. 3 ‘ 
As for Mufick, and fuch founds as pleafe the ear, they with fome 
fupplies may come from Exgland, both for Inftruments and voy- 
ces, to delight that fenfe, that fometimes when they are tir'd out 
| withtheir Jabour, they may have fome refrefhment by their ears; and 
to that end, they had a purpofe to fend for the Mufick, that were 
wont to play at the Black-Fryars,and to allow them a competent fala- 
ry, to makethem live as happily there, asthey had done in England: 
And Had not extream weaknefs, by a miferable long ficknefS, made 
/meuncapable of any undertaking, they had employed me in the bu- 
finefs, as the likelieft to prevail with thofe men, whofe perfons and 
| qualities were well known to me in Exgland. And though I found at 
Mouls were fo fixt upon, and fo riveted to the earth, and the profits 
it.as their fouls were lifted no higher; and thofé men 
ver lifted up fo high, as to hear the mufick of the Sphears, nor to be 
ij ag of ha Science, as “tis prac 14 HETe O, Lea (O35 ang the eiore we 
| will leavethem totheir ownearthly delights. 
yed but two wayes, either in 
Ly ae 
For the fenfe of feeling, it can be appl 
doing or faffering ; the poor Negres and Chriftian fervants find it 
perfe@ly upon their heads and fhoulders, by the hands of their fevere 
Overfeers; fo that little pleafure is given the fenfe, by this coercive 
kind of feeling,more then.a plaifter fora broken Pate; but, thisis but } 
a paflive kind of feeling: But take itin the higheft, and moft a@ive 
way it can beapplyed, which is upon the skins of women, and they 
are fo fweaty and clammy , as the hand cannot pafle over, without 
being glued and cemented inthe paflage or motion;and by that means, 
little pleafure is given to, OF received by the agent. or the patient: 
and therefore if this fenfe be neither pleafed in doing nor faffering,we 
may decline it as ufelef in a Country, wherédown of Swans, or wool | 
of Beaver is wanting. Say us af sided 
Now for the fenfe of Tafting,I do confefs, it recetves a more home 
fatisfadtion, then all the reft, by reafon of the fruits that grow there; 
fo that the Epicure cannot be' deceived , if he take.a long journy to 
pleafe his palate, finding all excellent taftes the world has, com * 
| Gedin onefingle finit, the Pine. And would not any Prince be con: 
ent to reduce hisbafe coyne, into Ingots of pure gold? And fo much 
fhall ferve touching the Barbadoes. — 3 
Some men Thave known in England, whofe bodies are fo ftrong and 
able'to endure cald, asnoweather fits them fo well as froft and. Egor 
fach Iron bodies would be fit fora Plantation in Reffia: For, there is 
ni ing H der the Line,nor fliding on the Ice under either 
us, for what with the heat and moifture of the aire, it is.all drawnout,, 3 
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