EXPEDITION TO SURINA?^!. 



productions of the climate. Wheat flour is fold from 

 four pence to one (hilling per pound ; butter two fhil- 

 Irngs ; butcher's meat never under one fliilling, and often 

 at one fliilling and fix pence ; ducks and fowls from three 

 to four fliillings a couple. A fingle turkey has coft me 

 one guinea and a half; eggs are fold at the rate of five, 

 and European potatoes twelve for fix pence. Wine three 

 fhillings a bottle. Jamaica rum a crown a gallon. FiOi 

 and vegetables are cheap, and fruit almoft for nothing. 

 My black boy, Quaco, has often brought me forty 

 oranges for fix pence, and half a dozen pine-apples for 

 the fame price ; while limes and tamarinds may be had 

 for gathering. Houfe-rent is exceflively high. A fmall 

 room unfurniflied cofts three or four guineas a month ; 

 and a houfe with two apartments on a floor, lets for one 

 hundred guineas yearly. Shoes fell for half-a-guinea a 

 pair; and a fuit of cloaths, with filver binding, has cofl: 

 me twenty guineas. 



The wood with which the houfes are generally built 

 deferves alfo to be noticed, viz. the Wana, ^nd xhQ Cuppy. 

 The Wana is a light durable timber of a coarfe grain, and 

 does not take the beft polifh; it is of a very pale red, ap- 

 proaching mahogany, and moitly ufed for doors and cup- 

 boards, alfo for boats and barges. This tree grows to a 

 confiderable height*. 



* This Dr. Bancroft, I think, calls the Tetermer. 



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