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Sugar, Coffee, Cotton, Cocao, &c. to 

 the Province of Zealand, yet we have li- 

 berty to export Rum, Melaffes, Timber, 

 &c. to foreign countries, and to import 

 from them all commodities which we 

 want, without difiindion, and uncharged 

 with duties. 



I think I have now given you an ac- 

 count of the moft material particulars 

 relative to the State and' Government 

 of thefe Colonies ; one thing yet re- 

 mains to complete my undertaking, 

 which is an Account of the Difeafes of 

 Guiana. Thefe are as numerous as in 

 other countries, where they have been 

 augmented by cookery, with its fti- 

 mulating provocative arts, exciting in- 

 ordinate appetites, by multiplying the 

 variety of dirties, which, blended in the 

 ftomach, compofe fuch an incongruous 

 medley, that the digeftive organs cannot 

 poflibly affimilate the pernicious mafs to 



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