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managers — thofe who are employed in adive 

 and bufy occupation, and have but little time 

 to devote to indolence and the luxuries of the 

 table. Among the merchants and planters 

 are many of as fat and portly figure as well- 

 fed aldermen ; to whom, indeed, they are 

 fcarcely fecond in Epicurean devotion. 



We obferve that condiments are ufed very 

 generally, and in great quantity. Ading as 

 ftimulants they appear to have the effed of 

 caufing the relaxed and enfeebled ftomach to 

 receive and to digeft more than it would, 

 otherwife, require — more, indeed, than it 

 would, otherwife, take. The various fpecies 

 of red pepper, known in England under the 

 common term Cayenne^ are ufed in quantities 

 that would feem incredible to people of colder 

 climates. 



A mixture of food is often taken, of a 

 nature fcarcely lefs heterogeneous than is 

 commonly confumed at the varied feaft of a 

 French appetite ; and with this melange of 

 folids, are ufed wine, punch, porter, cyder, 

 noyeau, and other good liquors in free liba- 

 tion — yet are there fpecimens of health and 



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