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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



THE WHEAT CROP OF THE WORLD, IX BUSHELS, 19OO. 



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The rye crop of principal countries in 1900 was: Austria, C6.936.171 bu-ihels; Hungary, 37,401,714 bushels; 

 nee, 63",969,828 bushels; United States, 23,859,714; Germany, 305,081,914 bushels; Russia, 886,678,571 bushels. 



ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, AND 

 MINERAL PRODUCTIONS. 



With the Names of the Countries Producing Them. 



Agates Africa and several parts of Europe, but 

 chiefly Iceland, Saxony, and Tuscany. 



Alabaster Spain, Italy, England, America. 



Alcaiiet (root) Imported from the Levant, or the 

 neighborhood of Montpellier in France. 



Alligator North America, South America, and the 

 northern parts of Africa. 



Almonds Spain, France, Italy, the Levant, Arabia, 

 4.sia, Africa. Indigenous to Greece. 



Aloes America, the West Indies. The medicinal 

 Aloes are indigenous to India, Africa, and Italy. 



Amber IH mines in Prussia, near the seacoast; on 

 the shores of Sicily and the Adriatic ; on the south- 

 ern shores of the Baltic and eastern shores of England ; 

 Mexico. 



Amethyst Sweden, Bohemia, Saxony, and other 

 parts of Europe; Siberia, India ( Ceylon), Mexico, 

 Brazil. 



Anchovy The Mediterranean (chiefly off Gorgona), 

 off the coast of Spain, France, and Italy; and occasion- 

 ally off those of England. 



Anise Seeds Egvpt, to. which they are indigenous ; 

 Syria and other Eastern countries; Spain, Malta, 

 America. 



Ant-BearSouth America (Brazil, Guiana), East 

 Indies, and Cape of Good Hope. 



Antelope Europe, Asia, Africa, Arabia. 



Apes Asia (the East Indies), and Africa. 



Armadillo Mexico, South America. 



Arnotto South America, East Indies, West Indies. 



Arrack (a spirituous liquor) Batavia, from rice; 

 Goa, from the juice of the cocoa tree. 



Arrowroot East Indies, Sooth America, West 

 Indies. 



Arsenic Great Britain, Saxony, Bohemia, Hungary, 

 Mexico. 



Asafretida (a kind of gum) Persia. 



Asbestos (an incombustible kind of earthy The 

 Ural and some other European mountains; Swedish 

 Lapland, Candia, China, North America. 



Asphaltum (a friable kind of bitumen > The Dead 

 Sea, many parts of Europe and America, the Island of 

 Trinidad. 



Baboons Asia (Borneo and the Philippine Islands), 

 and the hot parts of Africa. 



Bamboo Cane The East Indies, China, West Indies 

 and America. 



Banana Egypt and the West Indies, and other 

 tropical countries. 



Barilla (an alkaline salt, used in making glass) 

 Spain and other parts of Europe, South America, West 

 Indies. 



Bear The northern parts of Europe, Asia, Arabia. 

 Egypt, Barbary, Japan, Ceylon, North America, Peru. 



Beaver The north part of Europe, Asia, and America. 



Bergamot (a perfume) Bergamo, in Italy. 



Beryl (a gem) .Siberia, Dauria, on the frontiers of 

 China, Saxony, south of France, North America, Brazil. 



Betel (a shrub, whose leaf is chewed) The East In- 

 dies. 



Bird of Paradise The islands of Papua and Droo. 



Bison Poland, Lithuania and North America. 



Black Bear India, Africa, America, Kamchatka. 



Black Eagle Abyssinia. 



Black Fox The north of Europe, Siberia, North 

 America. 



Black Swan Botany Bay. 



Boa Constrictor Africa, South America, India. 



Box Wood Spain, Turkey, America. 



Brandy France, (chiefly in Cognac and Nantes); 

 also in England, Spain, and the United States, but of in- 

 ferior quality. 



B razil- Wood Brazil (Pernambuco) and other parts 

 of America ; the East Indies. 



Bread-Fruit Otaheite and other South Sea Islands. 



Buffalo Asia, Africa, America. 



Burgundy Wine France. 



Calabash Tree The East Indies, America, West 

 Indies. 



Camel Tartary, Siberia, Thibet, China. 



Camelopard Africa, Senaar, Abyssinia, Ethiopia, 

 and the neighborhood of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Camphor (a vegetable product) China, Japan, and 

 the East India Islands, Borneo, and Ceylon. 



Canary Birds Africa, the Canary Islands, Italy, and 

 Greece. 



Cantharides (a kind of beetle used in making blis- 

 ters) Spain, Italy, and south of France. 



Cape Madeira Wine The Cape of Good Hope. 



Capers (the buds of a plant) The south of France, 

 Italy, and the Levant. 



Capsicum (a pepper plant) East Indies, Mexico, 

 South America, West Indies. 



Caraway Seeds England, America. 



Cardamom Seeds East Indies (Malabar). 



Carmine (a color prepared from cochineal) East 

 Indies, Mexico, South America. 



Cassada (an edible root) South America and the 

 West Indies. 



Cassia (an aromatic bark) China, East Indies, South 

 America, West Indies. 



Castor Oil (from the seeds of a species of palm) 

 The East Indies, South America, West Indies. 



Cat's-Eye(a kind of gem) Ceylon, Siberia, America. 



Catechu (a vegetable extract) East Indies, Bombay, 

 Bengal. 



Caviare (a food made from the roes of sturgeon) 

 Russia. 



Cedar Syria, chiefly about Mt. Libanus ; America. 



Cayenne Pepper East Indies, South America. W^t 

 Indies. 



Chameleon Egypt and Barbary, India, Mexico, 

 Guiana. 



Chamois Goat The Alps and Pyrenees. 



Champagne Wine France, United States. 



Chestnut Italy, France, Spain. Portugal, America. 



Chigger (a species of flea that breeds under the akin) 

 South America. 



Chinchilla (fur) Chile. 



Chocolate (Cacao) Mexico, South America West 

 Indies. 



Cinnabar (a red paint) The palatinate of Germany, 

 Bohemia, Almaden in Spain, and India. 



Cinnamon The East Indies, chiefly Ceylon; South 

 America (Guiana). 



Citron Europe (Italy), Asia, West Indies. 



Civet (an animal perfume) Africa (coast of Guinea), 

 India, Brazil. 



