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this as of the former* This feed is a delicate 

 repafl for mice ; they not only feek for it 

 when the pod is expanded, but likewife feed 

 on k when in its capfules. 



Potatoes (which they call fowccc) make 

 the third and laft crop which they plant on the 

 terraces. The cotton crop being over, they 

 prepare the ground as before, and place the 

 flices of potatoes about one foot and a half 

 afunder. As this plant is not fo tender as the 

 former, grows flowly, and bears the cold, fo 

 they leave it to increafe for the remaining 

 months of the year. Thefe potatoes are in 

 fome refpecls different from ours, The roots 

 have red peels, are longer, yellow, fweet, and 

 agreeable to the palate ; but the leaves, &c, 

 are like thofe of the European potatoes. 



They do not always fow oil feeds, cotton 

 feeds, and plant potatoes, exactly in fuccefhon 

 one after another ; but fometimes fupply the 

 place of cotton with lentils, beans, locktaw, and 

 calvanfes : but they commonly begin the an^ 

 nual cultivation of their terraces with the oil 

 feeds, and finifli with potatoes. They always 

 prepare the ground as has been before men- 

 tioned j nor do they fow a tingle feed which 

 U 4 has 



