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you make when you take dinner at the 

 houfe. Nor Is the demand for this at all ex- 

 travagant, except, in fo far as regards the 

 the bad fruit. We paid a dollar each for din- 

 ner ; the fame for the wine ; and half a dollar 

 for the defert. 



They make the wine and porter very 

 pleafantly cool, by putting the bottles In 

 wet cloth bags, and placing them In the 

 open windows, for fome time before din- 

 ner ; taking care to fprinkle them, occafion- 

 ally, with water, as they ftand expofed to 

 the breeze, A very rapid evaporation is 

 thus produced, and, confequently, far more 

 heat carried off, than by merely fetting the 

 bottles cold in water. The porter is fo high- 

 ly improved by the climate, and rendered 

 fo pleafant, by this method of cooling, as 

 to be very fuperior to any that is drank in 



England. 



The attendants of the table are very nu- 

 merous, black and yellow, male and female — 

 perhaps too numerous to ferve you well : for 

 they are badly regulated, and the duty of one 



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