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Retrofpe£f of French Literature. — Mifcellaneous. 



Armenia has furniflied him with the 

 apricot, the peach, and the fig. 



Afia-Minor prefented hiti with the 

 cherry, ihe mulberry, the mel n, the olive, 

 the kidney- bean, the ral'pbeny, the honey- 

 fuckle, the laurel of the poets, &c. 



Syria fuinilhed the plum and the rofe of 

 Damascus, the Alth«a, the eim of Sama- 

 ria, and the hyfTop. 



Froai Mount Lebanus originally came 

 his cedars, his fervice-trees, and his cur- 

 rant-buflies. 



Arabia Felix, or Yemen, fo renowned 

 for its continual verdure and prodigious 

 fecundity, had tranfmitfed to our (blitary 

 the white and red mulcadine-grape, the 

 role-bufli that blooms four times a-veir, 

 the role with a hundred leave?, and the 

 burningbulh (ou le buijhn deMoyfe). 



From Perfia catrie h:s peaches, his 

 ftrawberry- plants, and his dwaif almond- 

 trees. 



From China the orange and the prickly 

 gleditlia. 



From Hindoftan, the tuberofe, the jaf- 

 min, and the cinnamon. role, &c. 



From the above catalogue, in which the 

 original country of each produftion is 

 pomted out, it will be feen that the French 

 liermit muft have had charming wall- 

 fruit, an excellent kitchen garden, and 

 fine pleafure-grounds. 



♦' Memoires de M. le Baron De Be- 

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 Gi and' Croix de rOidre de Snnt-Loui?, 

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