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«sd with little ftones. The Spaniards call the 

 tree Olivo, but its fruit, or the olives, Aceytuna. 

 On them grew the Lichen crijiahts, and be- 

 low the trees bloomed a fpecies of flock-july* 

 flowers (Cbeirantbus trilobus), and Valeriana 

 cornucopia. In one of thefe olive-tree planta* 

 tations I found Arum arifarw??, the roots of 

 which go very deep. The olive-trees (hewed 

 no blofToms as yet, and had but a poor inclo- 

 fure. 



I saw here fome fmall flocks of Spanifli 

 fheep : they were all white, with fome black 

 fpots near the eyes, ears, and mouth. See 

 Dr. Linnceus's Voyage to Weftrogothia, 

 page 53. 



Artichokes (€y?:ara folymus), in Spanifli 

 Acanziles, or Alcacbofa, or Cardillos, were 

 planted on little hills, as we do hops ; the red 

 of the garden fluff, as beans, turneps, Sec. h 

 managed as in Sweden. 



The tender plants are covered with fkreens, 

 which are erected almoft horizontally at two 

 yards from the ground : to water the plant?, 

 water is drawn up out of the well by means 

 of a great wheel, turned either by men or by 

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