(seq. 420)

416

In the time the Dutch were in possesion
of this island which was not many years
they exported large quaintitys of Tobacco Sugar
Cassia ginger cinnamon, sassafras, gum copal
cocoa racou indigo and Cotten beside rich
woods materials for deying drugs of different
kinds and several sorts of delicious sweet meats

We shall here take the liberty of observing that
there is at least the highest probability of our
being able to produce all the valuable spices of
the East Indies in this island Cinnamon is
said to grow in some of the other West India
Islands and General Codrington had once an
intention to try how much it might be improved
by a regular cultivation in the island of Barbuda

It is universally allowed that what is
called the Bark of the wild cinnamon tree in

Tobago