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Jh Extra£f of a Letter of Mr. Lifters, containing fme Ohf er^- 
vMtonJ^mdea^theB^Yh^ido's. 
SIR, 
GorrefporjcJenr of mine at the Barbados ^ fhe Learned 
Dr. thomas "towns ^ hach lately farniflied ine wi h fome- 
Obfervations in a Letter of his dated in chat Ifland March 26, 
167s ' ^vhich I fliai! tranfcribe foryou : 
1. Our general draught of Wine is from the '^^Madern^ which, 
contrary to all other I know of, will not endure a cool Cellar. 
French not RhenifJj Wines neither keep nor agree well with our 
ftomacks, if fo conflantly drank as in Eng!a^d. Canary-wine 
few here care for, coimringit fulfom, ^r. 
2. For ojy parCj I would will} to live in rhis I{land3 as 'tis 
nowfecled^ before any other place, it being fo temperare that 
we need not hang over the fire to keep out cold , oor fhat up 
doors at noon ( as I hear the cuflome is in Spaip^ ) nor fet our 
beds in the tops of Houfes (as they do in fome places on the- 
Mediterranean-Sea > to fence off heat : For the Sun, notwith^ 
(landing bis neighbourhood, is very gentle here, being fann'd; 
with a conftant gale from the Eaft. 
3. I have heard it queftion'd, Whether America h3ive not 
fomePlantscoramon wit[3 thofe of Eurofe, efpecially the more 
Northern parts of it^ and probably fuppofed^ that the tops of 
Mountains here might produce fuch, as being cool and fon^ewhat 
approaching to the temperature of thofe places in the Norths 
that are level and more forcibly influenced bv the Sun* To the 
clearing of this doubt, I obferve, that-Pi^r/?i;?^ is here all the 
Country over where I have been, and even troublef^me to the 
Planter : In the fields I have many times gathered a Sallat of ir, 
and it eats as well with Oyl and Vinegar as that of oar Englijh 
Gardens. Here is like wife a Somhus, Lens palujiris-^ I found alfo 
■^ Meliiot^ or onG fo like it in all circumftances (except that the 
branches are not fo ^reft ) that I cannot find any difTerence 
from that of England. 
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