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56 ; and mot people here are confirmed in the opinion that it alo trengthens the tomach, and preerves the teeth and gums. It is only ued in moking, with a mixture of tobacco and reﬁned ugar, by the Nabobs and other great men, to whom this pecies of luxury confined.

In everal parts of the country, the oil and climate are very favourable to thee latter productions. Tobacco of the finet quality, grows in rich moit grounds, in. which it is generally planted, and brought by cultivation to great perfection. The ugar plantations employ thouands of the natives, who alone, inured to the exceive heat of