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Rio de Janeiro

Novr. 1768

& consequently so close to the ground that tho there might be upon them a sufficient bite for horses or sheep but yet how horned cattle could live at all upon them was all that appeard extraordinary to me

I also saw their gardens or small patches in which they cultivate many sorts of European garden stuff as Cabbage, peas, beans, kidney beans, turnips, white raddishes, pumkins, &c. but all much inferior to ours except perhaps the last here also they grow water melons & pine apples the only Fruits which I have seen them take any Pains to cultivate The water melons are very good but the Pines much inferior to those I have tasted in Europe hardly one I have yet had could have been reckond among the midling sort many were struck worse than I have seen sent from table in England where nobody would Eat them

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