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free libations of punch and fangaree. Im- 

 mediately preceding dinner, which is ufually 

 at an early hour, are taken punch and man- 

 dram. The dinner, for the mod: part, is pro- 

 fufe, and many hours are commonly pafTed at 

 table in full and bufy occupation. 



After a more than plentiful confumption 

 of food, a free indulgence in fruit, and a 

 bounteous fupply of wine and other good 

 liquors, to crown the repaft, the appetite and 

 thirft are further provoked by a difh of fprats, 

 or other broiled fifh, and a large bowl of milk 

 punch. Tea and coffee are next ferved — 

 and laftly comes the fupper, which forms no 

 trifling meal. After this the bottle, the glafs, 

 and the punch-bowl know no reft, until the 

 filent hour when Morpheus, with rival powers^ 

 dethrones the Bacchanalian god. 



From the nature of the climate we had 

 expected to have found the inhabitants men 

 of meager figure, half diiTolved in perfpiration^ 

 and exhaufted almoft to fhadows : nor, indeed, 

 are fuch figures rare, but they are to be found, 

 moftly, among the clerks, the book-keepers, 

 and thofe orders of white people below the 



