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CHAP, and warehoufes, which altogether appear like a fmaH vil^ 

 J^^^]^ lage. The coffee-lodge alone fometimes cofts five thoufand 

 pounds llerling, and fometimes more. But to give a more 

 complete idea of the whole apparatus, I muft refer to the 

 p/a^e, where all the buildings, fields, paths, gardens, 

 floodgates, and canals are marked, and explained by tlie 

 necelfary references. The plan, as exhibited in this plate, 

 is intended to unite at once elegance, convenience, and 

 fafety. It is elegant, as being perfe(5tly regular ; conve- 

 nient, as having every thing at hand and under the 

 planter's own infpec^ion ; and fafe, being furrounded by 

 a broad canal,, which by floodgates lets in the water frelli 

 from the river, befides a draw-bridge, which during the 

 night cuts off all communication from without.. , 



I fliall now proceed to the planting-ground, which is 

 divided into large fquare pieces, in each of which are ge- 

 nerally two thoufand beautiful coffee-trees, growing at 

 eight or ten feet diiliance from each other. Thefe trees, 

 which begin to bear at about the age of three years, are 

 in their prime at fix, and continue to produce fruit till, 

 they are thirty ; the manner of fupplying them being 

 from good nurferies, which no coffee eftate is ever with- 

 out, having already mentioned that they afford two 

 crops every year, which is about Midfummer and Chrift- 

 mas. 



At the times of harveft, it is not unpleafing to fee the 

 negroes picking the crimfbn berries among the polifhed 

 green, where all ages and fexes are. employed to fulfil their 



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