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CHAP, roafted beef is often fent from Europe to Guiana as s 



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moft valuable and delicate prefent. The manner of pre- 

 ferving the meat for this long voyage, when roafted, is 

 by putting it in a block-tin box or cannifter ; then filling, 

 np the empty fpace with gravy or dripping till it is 

 perfedly covered over; after which the box muft be 

 made faft and foldered round about, fo that neither air 

 nor water can penetrate : by this means I was told it may 

 be with fafety carried round^the globe. 



The Iheep in this country are fo fmall that, when 

 fkinned, they feem not larger than young lambs in 

 Whitechapel market ; they have no horns nor wool, but 

 Itrait hair, and are to an European but very indifferent 

 eating : the more fo, fince all beef, mutton, S>cc. muft 

 be confumed the fame day that it is killed, which caufes 

 it to eat tough, while, keeping it longer expofes it to 

 putrefadtion. Neither of thefe animals are natural to 

 Guiana : the breed has been imported from the Old 

 Continent. So alfo was the breed of the hog, but with 

 far better fuccefs ; for thefe animals, in my opinion, 

 thrive better in South America than in Europe. The 

 hogs here are large, fat, good, and plentiful; as in Eng- 

 land, they feed on almoft every thing that is eatable, 

 and on the eftates are often fattened with green pine- 

 apples, a fruit which grows fpontaneoufly in this cUmate, 

 and of which they are exceedingly fond. As for the 

 poultry, nothing can thrive better ; the common fowls 

 are here as good and as plenty as in any country, but 



fmaller. 



