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The great affinity between this climate and that 

 of Spain is evident fiom its produils, thongh there 

 is a remarkable difference wiih regard to their good- 

 nefs and plenty, in both which this country has 

 greatly the advantage. The crees and plants uf ail 

 kinds have their regular feafons, e.mbelüíhing the 

 fields with their verdure, entercaining the figh'- vvjdi 

 their various flowers and bloíT-ms, and gradfying 

 the palate with their delicious fru'ts. it is need- 

 lefs to mention that the tines of the feafon muil 

 be oppofite, confequently the winter in Spain is 

 their lummer, and the autumn of the former, the 

 ipriiig of the Utter. In faying that this country 

 produces the fame corn and iruits- as Sp^in, I do 

 not mean thoi'c of the moil fouthern parts, for 

 neither fugir-canes, oranges, -nor lemons thrive here. 

 Nor is it well adapted to olive-yards, though Ibmc 

 olives are produced here. But the fruits cultivated 

 in the center of Spain, are the fame with thofe pro- 

 duced here in a moil aíloniOiing plenty, wheat and 

 other grain, generally producmg an hundred foid. I 

 ihall here relace an inilance Í myfclf faw and ex- 

 amined at Talcaguano, in a garden near the fea 

 fide, at a place called the Morro, very little more 

 than a quarter of a league from the harbour. A- 

 mong federal ilalks of wheat that had grov/n there 

 wiihouc culture, I faw one whofe ftem was not 

 more than a foot from the ground, but from its 

 knots there afterwards fprung (o many flaiks, as 

 produced thirty-four ears *, the Urgeft of which were 

 near three inciits in length, and the leail not Icis 

 than two. The mailer of the houíé obferving thac 

 I viewed this produólion of nature with aili^nifií- 

 ment, told m^ chat it was nothing extraordinary, 

 for though the grain in the ground commonly fown, 

 did not often attain fuch a luxuriancy, ic was com- 



* Thi? fpeiies of when i called ■TriliaiKt/iica ntult.^iki, and is 

 •ult'vaced in Icaly ana ¿icily. _ 



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