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mating nurseries, in southern Spain, for gradual acclimation throughout 
the peninsula. -One of the important results is already seen in the profita- 
ble propagation and preparation of the cochineal plént and insect of Mexico, 
sand dollars thus employed, would be more productive of permanent pros- 
perity to his country, than many millions bestowed in any other way. In 
reference to Sisal hemp alone, until the present Secretary of State shall 
have attentively weighed all the facts and arguments alleged by the subscri- 
ber in favor of its production in the United States, he earnestly begs that his 
Opinions may not be deemed extravagant or absurd, when he repeats his un- 
shaken conviction, that its introduction will make an era of as great im- 
portance to the agricultural prosperity of our confederation as the invention 
of the cotton gin; that, as the narcotic leaves of one native plant of Yu- 
catan (which did take its name from the dependent province of Tobasco) 
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(which may take its name from the exporting port of Sisal) will more pro- 
fly as possible, to the profitable pro- 
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