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to the logis, where we faw the cocoa feed's 

 expofed for drying, preparatory to their being 

 made into chocolate ; and, alfo, great quantities 

 of coffee undergoing the laft procefs, previous 

 to being fent to market. It was the firft ex- 

 tenfive plantation of cocoa I had feen, and, in 

 witneffing the mode of preparing this into 

 chocolate, I could: not but notice that what h 

 commonly ufed as cocoa, in England, is only 

 the fhell or outer covering of the feed — the 

 kernel, or true cocoa being ufed for making the 

 chocolate. If, therefore, you fhould wifti< to 

 drink cocoa, rememember you can only have 

 it good by boiling chocolate thin and weak y 

 the common cocoa being no other than the 

 hulks or fweepings, which cannot be ufed in 

 preparing the chocolate. 



At another eftate we were regaled with 

 fruit, and fome pines were put into the boat, 

 when we were going away. Here we alfo 

 pulled from the trees fome calabafhes of un- 

 common fize, to take home with us to ufe by 

 way of bowls and platters. We likewife 

 gathered fome roots of jalap from under the 

 hedges, and obferved the ipecacuanha growing 

 in the fields. Thus, you find, that however 

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