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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Lion Africa, India, Persia, Japan. 



Lodestone Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland. 



Locust Inhabits Tartary, and migrates in great 

 swarms into various parts of Europe, Africa, and 

 America. 



Logwood Honduras and the West Indies. 



Lory (a beautiful species of parrot) The Molucca 

 Islands, Java, and New Guinea. 



Lotus (a species of water lily) The hot parts of 

 Africa, East Indies, America. 



Lynx fa species of cat) The north of Europe, Asia, 

 and America. 



Macaroni Italy, Sicily, Germany. 



Mace Banda Isle and other East Indies. 



Madder (a root used in dyeing) The south of Europe, 

 Holland, and England. 



Madeira Wine The Island of Madeira. 



Mahogany Jamaica (the best), Cuba, Hayti, the 

 Bahama Islands, Honduras, Panama, South America. 



Maize or Indian Corn America. 



Malmsey Wine Malvesia, one of the Grecian 

 Islands. 



Manganese (a species of calcareous earth) Sweden, 

 Germany, France, England. 



Mangrove Asia, Africa, and South America, be- 

 tween the tropics. 



Manna (a vegetable product) The south of Europe, 

 particularly Sicily and Calabria. 



Maple Sugar Europe and North America. 



Marble Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, the 

 Island of Faros, England, Scotland, America. The 

 Statuary Marble is from Paros and Carrara. 



Melons Asia, South of Europe, Egypt, Arabia, 

 America, West Indies. 



Mica (a kind of argillaceous earth) Siberia, lien- 

 gal, Malabar, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Saxony. 



Millet Seed The south of Europe, Africa, East In- 

 dies, and America. 



Mocho Stone East Indies, Iceland, the palatinate 

 of the Rhine and other parts of Europe. 



Monkeys South America and the hottest regions of 

 Asia and Africa. 



Molasses West Indies, United States (Louisiana). \ otner volcanoes. 



Ounce The torrid parts of Africa and Asia. 



Palm Oil Tree South America. 



Panther Africa and the hot parts of Asia. 



Papyrus (a plant which formed the paper of the earlv 

 times) Egypt, Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Syria, Sicily, Mad- 

 agascar. 



Parrots Africa, East Indies, South America, West 

 Indies. 



Pearl (a gem produced by a species of oyster or mus- 

 sel) Arabia, Persia, the East Indies, America. 



Pearl Ashes America. 



Pelican South America, all the warm latitudes of 

 the old and new continents, the lakes of Judea and 

 Egypt, and the rivers Nile and Strymon. 



Penguin The South Islands, Europe, America. 



Pepper The East Indies, America, West Indie- 

 of Good Hope. 



Peruvian Bark South America (Peru and Quito). 



Petroleum The East Indies, Persia. Media, Siberia. 

 France, England, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United . 

 States. 



Pimento The West Indies, particularly Jamaica. 



Pineapple Mexico, South America, the hot parts of 

 Africa, India, the West Indies. 



Pitch United States, Sweden, Norway. 



Plantain (a fruit) Africa, South America, West In- 

 dies. 



Platina South America (near Quito, Santa F4, and 

 Choco). 



Plumbago England, and several countries on the 

 continent of Europe, America. 



Pomegranate Spain, Italy, Africa, West Indies. 



Porcupine Spain, Italy, India, Persia, South Tar- 

 tary, Africa, America. 



Porphyry Egypt, Italy, Germany, and other parts 

 of the continent. 



Potash Russia and America. 



Prunes France (chiefly from the neighborhood of 

 Marseilles). 



Ptarmigan (white grouse) The mountainous parts 

 of Europe and Siberia. 



Pomace Stone The neighborhood of Vesuvius and 



Morocco Leather The Levant, Barbary, Spam, 

 France, Flanders, England, and America. 



Mosquito (a species of gnat) The hot parts of 

 Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. 



Mother of Pearl (the lining of the pearl mussel s 

 shell) The Red Sea, East Indies, America. 



Mulberry Italy (black), China, (white), United 

 States (white and red), East Indies, Japan, Siberia, 

 Russia. 



Muscatel Wine Languedoc in France. 



Musk (an animal odoriferous substance) Siberia, 

 Persia, Thibet, Tonquin, Cochin China. 



Musk Ox North America. 



Myrrh (a gum resin) The coast of the Red Sea. 



Naphtha (a highly inflammable fluid bitumen) 

 Baku, on the shore of the Caspian Sea, Persia, Media, 

 Tartary, China, Italy, Peni. 



Natron (soda) Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland, 

 Egvpt, China, Bengal, Persia, Syria, South America. 



Nautilus Argonauta The Mediterranean, African, 

 and Indian Seas. 



Nitre (a neutral salt, the chief ingredient in gun- 

 powder) Spain, France, Naples, Egypt, East Indies, 

 America. 



Nutmegs The East Indies, South America. 



Olives Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Northern 

 Africa, Mexico. 



Onyx East Indies, Siberia, Bohemia, Saxony, Portu- 

 gal, Mexico. 



Opium (a concreted juice, obtained from a species of 

 poppy)_ Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of 

 Asia, especially the East Indies. 



Opossum America. 



Orang-outang Africa. 



Oranges Spain, Maiorca, Portugal, Italy, Genoa, 

 Nice, the Azores, America, West Indies. Oranges for 

 wine from Seville in Spain. 



Pumpkin Germany and America. 



Quagga (a quadruped of the horse species) South 

 America. 



Quassia (the root, bark, and wood, of a tree) South 

 America, and the West Indies. 



Quicksilver Ionia, Hungary, Spain, Italy, East 

 Indies, South America. 



Raccoon (a species of badger) North America, 

 Jamaica. 



Raisins Spain and Turkey, Asia Minor, California. 



Rattan Cane The East India Islands. 



Red Port Wi lie Oporto in Portugal. 



Reindeer Lapland, British America, Greenland. 



Resin (the residuum from the distillation of the oil of 

 turpentine) Sweden and Norway, United States. 



Rhenish Wine The banks of the Rhine. 



Rhinoceros Africa, East Indies (Bengal, Java, 

 Sumatra, Ceylon). 



Rhubarb Asiatic Turkey, Russia, China, Persia, 

 Tartarv, East Indies, and America. 



Kice Asia (the East Indies and China), Egypt, north 

 of Africa, America (the best from Carolina), Spain. 

 Italv. Turkey. 



Rock Salt England, Italy. Poland, America. 



Rosewood- Jamaica, the Canary Islands. 



Ruby The East Indies, Peru, Brazil. 



Rum Jamaica, and other West India Islands. 



Sable (a species of ferret) Siberia. Kamchatka, 

 and the northern parts of Europe and America. 



Saffron (the flower of a plant) Egypt, Europe, 

 America. 



Sago (a fecula obtained from the pitli of a species of 

 palm) Africa, Malabar, and the Kast Indian islands. 



Sal Ammoniac India, Persia. Isle of Bourbon, 

 E"vpt, the neighborhood of .V.tna. Vesuvius, Hecla,and 



Orplment (vellow arsenic) Hungary, Georgia, Tur- other volcanoes, the Lapiri Islands. 



kev the Levant, England. Sandal Wood-The East Indies, and Sandwich 



Orris Root Italy and other parts of the south of Islands. 



Europe Sapphire -Brazil, East Indies, Persia, Bohemia 



Ostrich The torrid regions of Asia and Africa, South France. 



America Sardonyx -Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Bohemia, Sax- 

 Attar of Roe Arabia, Persia, Turkey, East In- ony, Ceylon. 



Mt Sursaparilla (root of a plant) North America. 



