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HISTORY OF THE [book v . 
no country under the sun, wherein a soft unctuous 
marie more abounds than in Jamaica. To the ques¬ 
tion, zvhy no trial has yet been made of it t no bet¬ 
ter answer, I believe can be given, than that the 
planters in general have no leisure for experiments, 
and that it is difficult to make agents and servants 
(who have every thing to risk and nothing to gain), 
walk out of the sure and beaten track of daily prac¬ 
tice. Every man’s experience confirms this obser¬ 
vation. 
But it is not my province to propose systems, 
but to record facts 3 —to describe things as they are , 
rather than as I conceive they ought to be; and it 
is now time to conduct the reader from the field in¬ 
to the boiling-house, and convert the farmer into 
the manufacturer. 
