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Thie clilture of ftict^ is^th^refort, detrimehtal, 

 and ht from being proper to be encowagtdi in «rf 

 ftart : they ought rather to guard agsrhift m bi'ing 

 introduced; for even though it might be t cry dd-' 

 vancageous in a lucrative vi^w, ytt it it c^fdinJy of 

 Ittoi* confequence to preferve the heafcb and fiveo 

 ^ t)ie inhabitants, than to feek the means of eir* 

 riching them. The fovereign council of Roufilloif 

 prohibited it about forty y^rs fince, becaufe they 

 thought that the exhalatfoAs of the lands fown wkh 

 h had occafioned an epiderhic diftemper.f Anothcif 

 argument agamft the culture of rice is> that it t^-* 

 quires a confiderable degree of heat as well as 

 imoifture, and therefore will not grow beyond the 

 kdtudes of 46 or 47 degrees, and perhaps eVe« not 

 io far. — Mr. Rye, a very accurate obferver, has 

 affirmed, that itdiminiflies by tranfplanting; there* 

 fcrc, if it were advifeablc in countries where tliera^ 

 I is great plenty, it would not be fo where it is al^ 

 ready thin. 



^ • The culture of Mountain Riee would, no doubt, be very advadi* 



tlJUkii; bufbefidcs the great uiMrcrtainty of its growing in Europe. 



the procuring it Is attended with much diMiulfj', fince tHe zeal ahd^ 



■ ^ ardour of Monf. Poivre, who firft nude it known to us, hath not 



biwn ablcf to (lirtfl6tmt if. • 



•f" Thofe inhabitant* of the mountains, who come dovm into the 

 valllcs ofPiidniont in the autumn, to the Rice harvcft, arc raollly fcizcd 

 with the fevcTt , • 



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