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bottom of the table — forming the moll un- 

 feemly diih I ever beheld. 



JPerhaps we may find it to be common to 

 the Weft Indies, but, hitherto, it has appeared 

 to us peculiar to Barbadoes — to put on table 

 three or four large fubftantial puddings of dif- 

 ferent kinds, and four or five difhes of ,the 

 fame fort of meat, differently drefled. Unac- 

 cuftomed to this, an Englifh eye, on looking 

 into the dining room, is furprized at the con- 

 tinuation of mutton, mutton, mutton, pudding, 

 pudding, pudding, from one end of the table 

 to the other, and which the crowd of other 

 good things feems to render unneceffary. 



The generous board is often fupplied 

 wholly from the produce of the eftate, and on 

 the occafion of giving an entertainment it is 

 not unufual to kill an ox, a (beep, or, literally, 

 the fatted calf: hence it occurs that various 

 difhes of the fame kind of food, under diffe- 

 rent forms, fometimes make up the principal 

 part of the dinner, and, thus, it becomes ex- 

 plained why we fometimes fee upon table^ at 

 the fame time, roafted mutton, mutton ragout, 



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