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 It has Iikewlfe been obferved to me, that a^ 

 garden fluff, except lettuce, mud in this ifland 

 be renewed every year with feed from Europe. 



The moil curious things I have feen here are 

 the fugar-mills ; but I fhall fay nothing of them, 

 as father Labat has treated of them in a much 

 better manner than I can pretend to do. Next 

 to the fugar, the greateft riches of this colony con- 

 fids in the Indigo, which the fame author has 

 likewife handled very learnedly. This plant has 

 an irreconcileable enemy, which makes as great 

 havock amongft it, as darnel does among our 

 corn. It is an herb called Mai nommee, and in 

 fpringing from the earth carries a feed which 

 fpreads every where. It grows in a tuft, and by 

 its bulk, and prodigious fruitfulnefs, ftifles the 

 Indigo in fuch a manner that it kills it *, fo that 

 if it makes the leaft progrefs in a field, it is en- 

 tirely loft. 



The coafts of St. Domingo are not very plen- 

 tifully fupplied with fifh ; but a Jittle out at fea, all 

 forts of them are to be found. Coming from 

 Louifiana, we caught, in particular, a great many 

 gilt -heads or bonettas, upon which filh our fea- 

 men pretend to have made a very lingular obferva- 

 tion. Which is, that when this fifh is catched 

 before the moon comes to its height, its flefh is 

 firm and of an exquifite tafte, whereas when it is 

 taken in the wane, it is infipid, of no confidence, 

 and looks like flefh boiled to rags. It is true, that 

 we experienced both the one and the other, in the 

 two feafons ; but that this always happens, and 

 that the moon is really the caufe of it, is what I 

 cannot take upon me to affirm. 



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