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tribe have merely transferred a single species of any veget«ble to the vicinity 
of their huts, it may be safely pronounced that, of all plants known. to 
matter may be extracted from the roots, in the most ‘sterile districts of our 
southern States, much more profitably than from the grains of the most 
fertile districts of the western States. In the same way may be deduced the 
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their cortical fibres can be more easily extracted than flax or hemp, the 
subscriber believes that no place can be cited in which fibrous-leaved plants 
can also exist, where the natives do not give the preference to foliaceons 
fibres. the statistics of Vera Cruz, published in 1834, it is stated that, 
he soil and climate of Goazacoalcos is not surpassed by any in 
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will promise to her, with the rotary scrapers of Perrine, to se te foliace- 
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and northern States, 
in the fertile districts of the new southwestern and western States ; 
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