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bella to finance the voyages of Columbus. 1
The value of spices was so great that occasionally they were used as money! taxes and rents, for example, were assessed and paid in peppei.
Nowadays pepper is confined to the kitchen, where Americans consume it at the rate of 25,000 tons a year.
But a few years ago the town of Lyndhurst, N. J., was reported (o have paid off 150 years of back rent on a schoolhouse..._.by forking over 150 peppercorns.
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