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not produce fuch beef as is to be met with in England : it 
is not, however, by any means fo bad as reprefented by 
fome travellers to be ; on the contrary, I have feen and eat 
here tolerably good, fweet, and well-tafted beef. I never 
faw any mutton : they have indeed a few fheep, but they 
are fmall, thin, and lean. The gardens furnifh mofi: 
forts of European produdlions, fuch as cabbages, lettuce, 
parfley, leeks, white radiflies, beans, peafe, kidney beans, 
turnips, water melons, excellent pumpkins, and pine-applea 
of a fmall and indifferent kind. The country likewife pro- 
duces, in the moft unbounded degree, limes, acid and fweet 
lemons, oranges of an immenfe fize and exquilite flavour, 
plantains, bananas, yams, cocoa-nuts, cafhoo apples and 
nuts, and fome mangos. For the ufe of the flaves and 
poorer fort of people, the capado is cultivated in great 
plenty ; but this cannot be done through a want of corn 
for bread, as I never faw finer flour than at this place, which 
is plentiful, and remarkably cheap. 
Brazil,® particularly towards the northern parts, furniflies 
a number of excellent drugs. In the fhops of the druggifts 
and apothecaries of Rio de Janeiro, of which there are many, 
hippo, oil of caflior, balfam capiva, with mofl: of the valu- 
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