A Popular Account of the Manners And Customs of India
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The fruits which a stranger may meet with are no doubt delicious, since among them he will find the shaddock and the pine-apple ; but for these, as well as for almost all their other comforts and luxuries, the Bermudians are indebted to the continent of America or to the West Indies. "Whether this be owing to the natural sterility of the soil, or to the extreme indolence of the inhabitants, I cannot pretend to decide ; though I should be inclined to suspect that both were, in some decree, to bl...ame ; but its consequences are felt by all visitors, in a very sensible manner, every article of living being here sold for thrice its intrinsic value. That provisions should be dear in this country cannot surprise, when it is considered that this small colony is the general depot and place of resort for repairs and stores to a large proportion of the British navy, scattered along the coast of America ; but, surely, if the natives were a little more industrious, they might afford to sell their goods at a chap, vi.
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