At the bottom of the town, near the water-side, is the market place, which is plentifully supplied with butchers meat, poultry, fish, fruits and vegetables of all sorts. Here are found not only a great variety of American, but also of European, vegetables; such as pease, beans, cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, French beans, artichokes, potatoes, carrots, turnips, radishes, celery, onions, &c. These are brought from the Liguanea mountains, and are all excellent in their kind. Here are likewise strawberries, not inferior to the production of our English gardens; grapes and melons in the utmost perfection; mulberries, figs and apples, exceedingly good, but in general gathered before they are thoroughly ripe. In short, the most luxurious epicure cannot fail of meeting here with sufficient in quantity, variety, and excellence, for the gratification of his appetite the whole year round. The prices are but little different from those of Spanish Town; but, where they disagree, they are more reasonable at Kingston, the supplies being more regular, and the market better superintended by the magistracy. The beef is chiefly from the pastures of Pedros, in St, Anne; the mutton from the Salt-pan lands in St. Catherine; what they draw from the penns in St. Andrews parish being very indifferent meat.

Jamaica Market by Agnes Maxwell-Hall, 1894 Honey, pepper, leaf-green limes, Pagan fruit whose names are rhymes, Mangoes, breadfruit, ginger-roots, Granadillas, bamboo-shoots, Cho-cho, ackees, tangerines, Lemons, purple Congo-beans, Sugar, okras, kola-nuts, Fish, tobacco, native hats, Gold bananas, woven mats, Plantains, wild-thyme, pallid leeks, Pigeons with their scarlet beaks, Oranges, and saffron yams, Baskets, ruby guava jams, Turtles, goat-skins, cinnamon, Allspice, conch-shells, golden rum. Black skins, babel, and the sun That burns all colours into one.

Christmas in Jamaica

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