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A VOYAGE TO Book VI L 



The wines at Lima are of different forts, white, 

 red, and dark red : and of each fort fome are very- 

 generous and delicious. They are imported from 

 the coafls of Nafca, Pifco, Lucumba, and Chili ; 

 but the latter produces the beft, and among them 

 fome Mufcadel. The wine of Nafca is white, and 

 has the leaft demand of any, being inferior to the 

 others both in quality and tafte. That from Pifco 

 has the greateil fale, and from the fame place come 

 all the brandies either ufed at Lima or exported j no 

 rum being either made or ufed here. 



Most of the dried fruits are brought from Chili ; 

 and by means of the trade carried on between the 

 two kingdoms, Lima is fupplied with all forts of 

 fruits known in Spain, as almonds, walnuts, filberts, 

 pears, apples, &c. fo that their tables cannot in this 

 refped fail of plenty and elegance, having at one 

 time the fruits of the different fcafons, both of Ame- 

 rica and Europe. But amidfl this plenty, every 

 thing is very dear, the price being four or five times 

 as much as at Quito, bread only excepted. Wine, 

 oil and dried fruits, are fome of the cheapeft. The 

 poorer clals, however, as the negroes and other calls, 

 live tolerably well, fi(h, which is little eileemed by 

 the opulent, felling at a low price ; the fame may be 

 faid of mutton and beef, with regard to the inhabi- 

 tants of this country in general. * 



Sweetmeats are alio here in the fame plenty as 

 in the other parts of South-America, though feldom 

 eaten, -«xcepc as deferrs, and even then very mode- 

 rately. Inltead of chocolate, Mate, ox Paraguay 

 tea is generally ufed, and prepared twice a day. 

 Though this has here the defev51: already obfervcd, it 

 is better prepared than in any other part. 



* A quarter of their bsft beef may be bought for eight 

 Hals (53. yd. ilerling) tb? hide of beaft, being, commonly, 

 cf wore value ihaa tne carcafe, A* 



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