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plantation bordered with coffee and fruits. 

 Leading to the fugar fields, were fine rows of 

 fruit trees, laden with oranges, forbidden fruit, 

 fliaddocks, and citrons— the {haddocks and 

 forbidden fruit very fuperior to any I had be- 

 fore tafted, indeed fo exquifite, that perhaps 

 I might fay they were the fineft fpecies of the 

 two fineft fruits produced in the whole garden 

 of nature. 



I cannot exprefs to you how much we 

 were gratified — how peculiarly we were de- 

 lighted with all we faw at this happy abode of 

 Mr. Dougan. The plantation is laid out with 

 much tafte, and having every advantage of 

 culture, it exhibits, in high perfection, all the 

 luxuriancy of a rich tropical eftate. Utility, 

 pleafure, and convenience, are here mo ft hap- 

 pily combined. A private canal leads through 

 the middle of the grounds, and ferves, at once, 

 for ornament and pleafure, as well as for 

 bringing home the copious har veils of coffee 

 and fugar. 



At its fides are fmooth walks of grafs ; and 

 between thefe and the fugar canes are borders 

 planted with all the choice tropical fruits^ 



