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the magnitude of an abufe, to which, unheed** 

 ing, they had fo long been devoted. This 

 remark but too corre&ly applies to the ifland 

 from whence I am add re fling you, and where, 

 from the degree of indolence induced by 

 tropical heat, the ingefta taken to excefs may 

 be expe&ed in a peculiar degree to opprefs the 

 human frame* 



The people of Barbadoes are much ad- 

 dicted to the pleafures of the table. We have 

 fometimes thought that, in eating, they might 

 put to the blufh even the turtle countenances 

 of our London fat citizens. 



The breakfaft ufually confifts of tea and 

 coffee, or chocolate, with eggs, ham, tongue, 

 or other cold meat. Bread is feldom ufed, 

 but fubftitutes are found in roafted yams or 

 eddoes, both of which a good deal refemble 

 roafted potatoes. They are ufed hot, and 

 eaten with butter, which is fometimes made 

 in the country, but more frequently barrelled 

 and brought from Ireland ; that made in the 

 ifland being of crearn-like foftnefs, and not 

 always of good flavor. In the courfe of the 

 forenoon are ufed fruits, or fandwiches, with 



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