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Claret Wine The neighborhood of Garonne on the 

 western coast of France ; United States. 



Cloves The Molucca Islands (chiefly Amboyna) ; the 

 isles of France and Bourbon ; South America (Cayenne). 



Cochineal (an insect used in dyeing and painting) 

 The East Indies, Mexico, South America. 



Cockatoo East Indies, and the islands of the Indian 

 Ocean; Banda, Ceram, the Philippines, and Sunda 

 Isles. 



Cocoanut The East Indies, Arabia, Africa, South 

 America, West Indies. 



Cockroach (a kind of beetle) Asia, America, West 

 Indies. 



Coffee Arabia (Mocha), East Indies, West Indies, 

 South America. 



Condor (a bird of prey) South America. 



Coni>tantia \Vine Constantia Farm, at the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Copal (a kind of resin) Africa (Guinea), and 

 America. 



Copper Anglesea and Cornwall, Sweden, Norway, 

 Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and various parts of the con- 

 tinent of Europe, China, and Japan ; Southern Africa, 

 United States, Peru, and Chili. 



Coral (a marine animal production) The Mediter- 

 ranean (about Sicily, Majorca, and Minorca), the Red 

 Sea ; off the coasts of Africa and America ; in the South 

 Seas. 



Coriander Seed South of Europe; England and 

 America. 



Cork Portugal, Spain, and other parts in the south 

 of Europe ; Sicily (on Mt. Etna), the shores of the Medi- 

 terranean, South America. 



Cornelian The East Indies, Arabia, Egypt, various 

 parts of Europe, several of the British shores, America. 



Cotton The Levant, Egypt, the East Indies, South 

 America, United States, West Indies. The finest now 

 produced is the Sea Island Cotton of Georgia, South 

 Carolina, and Florida. 



Crocodile Africa (the rivers Nile and Senegal, and 

 all the rivers of Guinea); India (the Ganges). 



Crystal (a kind of gem) Madagascar, South Amer- 

 ica (Brazil, Guiana), North America, Norway, the Alps, 

 Scotland. 



Currants The islands of the Grecian Archipelago, 

 England, and the United States. 



Cypress The east of Europe, the Levant, Asia, 

 America. 



Dates Egypt, the African coast of the Mediterra- 

 nean, Arabia, the East Indies, Persia, Spain, and Italy. 



Diamonds The East Indies (Golconda, Raolcouda, 

 Borneo), Mexico, Brazil, South Africa. 



Dolphin -^The Atlantic and Pacitic seas. 



Dragon 's-Blood (a kind of resin) Japan, Cochin- 

 China, Java, and other parts of the East. 



Dromedary The deserts of Arabia and other parts of 

 Asia, and of Africa. 



Ebony The East Indies (chiefly Ceylon), and West 

 Indies. 



Eider Down (from the Eider Duck) The north of 

 Europe (chiefly Iceland), Asia, America. 



Elephant Africa and the East Indies. The most 

 esteemed are those of Ceylon. 



Elk or Moose Deer North America, some parts of 

 Europe and Asia, as far south as Japan. 



Emerald Egypt and Ethiopia, Russia, the confines 

 of Persia, Mexico, Peru. 



Emery (mineral used in polishing steel) The Le- 

 vant. Naxos, and other Grecian Islands, Germany, Guern- 

 sey, Spain, Italy, United States. 



Ermine (a species of ferret) Norway, Lapland, Fin- 

 land, North America, Siberia, China. 



Fan Palm The south of Europe, the East Indies 

 (Malabar and Ceylon), Japan, Cochin China. 



Figs Italy, the Levant, Turkey, the Grecian Islands, 

 Portugal, Spain, and south of France. 



Fire-fly America, India, Japan. 



Fitchet (a species of weasel) India, New South Wales. 



Flamingo Africa, South America, West Indies. 



Flax Every quarter of the globe. 



Flying-fish Inhabits the European, Red, and Amer- 

 ican seas, but is found chiefly between the tropics. 



Flying squirrel North America. 



Frankincense (a kind of gum) Arabia. 



French Plums Chiefly from Bordeaux. 



Frontignac wine Languedoc, France. 



Fuller's Earth Sweden, Saxony, Portugal, Eng- 



land ; the finest and most plentiful found at Warden, 

 near Woburn. 



Galls (a vegetable excrescence) Asia Minor, and 

 Syria, the best from Aleppo. 



Gamboge (a resinous gum) Tonqiiin, the East In- 

 dies. 



Garnet Bohemia, and other parts of Europe, Mada- 

 gascar, Ethiopia, India, Syria. 



Gazelle India, Persia, Egypt, Ethiopia. 



Gentian (a kind of bitter root) The Alps, and other 

 mountainous parts, of the continent of Europe. 



Gin Originally Schiedam, a village near Rotterdam 

 in Holland, and hence sometimes called Holland Gin. 

 Common gin, a deleterious mixture, made in great quan- 

 tities in England and the United States. 



Ginger (an aromatic root) The East Indies, West 

 Indies, Abyssinia, coasts of Guinea. 



Gold Asia (Arabia), India, Java, Sumatra, Peril, 

 China, Japan, Siberia, Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, 

 United States. 



Golden Eagle Europe, Siberia, Abyssinia. 



Golden Pheasant China. 



Gourd America, south of Europe. 



Grapes France, Portugal, America, in great per- 

 fection ; not so in England and other less genial cli- 

 mates. 



Guava (a fruit) The West Indies. 



Guaiacum (the resin of the Lignum Vitae tree) South 

 America and West Indies. 



Guinea Fowl Africa. 



Gum Arabic Egypt, Barbary, Turkey, Persian 

 Gulf. 



Gypsum (or Plaster of Paris) America, Spain, Italy, 

 England. 



Heliotrope (or blood-stone) Siberia, Persia, Buk- 

 haria. 



Hemp Russia and other parts of Europe (the best 

 from Riga), America, the East Indies, and some parts of 

 England. 



Hickory Nut North America. 



Hippopotamus All the lakes and a number of 

 rivers of Africa. 



Hock Wine Hockstedt in Suabia. 



Humming Bird South America (Guiana), West 

 Indies, and United States. 



Hyena (a species of wild dog) India, Persia, Africa. 



Ichneumon (a species of weasel) Egypt, Barbary, 

 the south of Asia, and the Indian Islands. 



Incense (a resinous perfume) America. 



India Rubber (the inspissated resinous juioe of a 

 tree) Guiana, ana other parts of South America.- 



Indigo (a deep b.'ue vegetable dye) East Indies, 

 Africa, America, West Indies. 



Ipecacuanha (a kind of root used chiefly as an 

 emetic) South America (Brazil), and the West Indies. 



Iron Sweden, Norway, Russia, England, Scotland, 

 North America, Africa. 



Isinglass (fish glue) Russia. 



Ivory Asia (Achem and Ceylon), Africa (Guinea 

 and the Cape of Good Hope). 



Jackal (a species of wild dog) Africa and the warm 

 parts of Asia. 



Jalap (a purgative root) Chiefly from Xalapa in 

 Mexico. 



Jasper Egypt, Siberia, Spain, Sicily, Hungary, 

 Bohemia, Saxony, Silesia, Mexico. 



Jet Great Britain, Germany, France, and Spain, 



Juniper Berries (from which Holland gin is dis- 

 tilled) Sweden, Holland, Germany, the south of Eu- 

 rope, Asia, America. 



Kangaroo Australasia. 



Lac (a vegetable substance prepared by an insect) 

 The East Indies, Bengal. 



Llama (a species of camel) Peru and Chile. 



Lantern Fly Surinam, and other parts of South 

 America. 



Lapis Lazuli (a kind of siliceous earth) Siberia, 

 China, Tartary, America, and various parts of Europe. 



Lemons Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, the Levant, 

 Arabia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Florida. 



Leopard Senegal, Guinea, and other parts of 

 Africa. 



Lignum Vitse West Indies, chiefly Jamaica,, 



Limes America, West Indies. 



