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... appear to have sprung up as if by magic, and the puffing handbills of the different competitors are already * thick as blackberries.’ All these stores are mere wooden sheds, and from their rough fittings are strongly suggestive of the description of similar ...

... melons, &c.: but this is just the end of winter here, so that we saw no kind of fruit, except what was unripe, and a few blackberries, just like what we have in England. There are about 15J people on the island, includ- ing several blacks, a governor, parson ...