TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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The teak-tree page 209 



The date-tree 209 



The oak and Jarch 210 



The peach-tree 210 



The clove 210 



The orange-tree 210 



The cotton plant 210 



Odours 211 



Aromatic oils 211 



Rouge 211 



Gum 211 



Resin 212 



Gluten 212 



Indigo page 212 



Albumen 21'2 



Opium 213 



Tea 213 



Starch 214 



Starch sugar 215 



Sweet potatoes 215 



Saccharine matter 215 



Ardent spirits 215 



Tannin . . 216 



Indian rubber 216 



Wines, where produced . . 216 



AGRICULTURE. 



Origin of soil 218 



The ingredients of soil . . 219 



Barren so$s 219 



Bulbous roots 219 



Fertile soils 220 



Improvement of soils .... 220 



Winter irrigation 220 



Exhalation 220 



Limestone 220 



Marie 221 



Manures 221 



Putrefaction 221 



Sea weed 222 



Predominating grains .... 222 



Wheat, a grass 222 



Average produce 223 



The loaf 223 



Constituents of wheat and 



potatoes 223 



Rice 224 



Cassada 224 



ZOOLOGY. 



The six classes of animals . 225 

 Periods of gestation .... 225 



Incubation 225 



Fecundity 226 



The animal and vegetable 



kingdoms 226 



Animals of New Holland . 226 

 The cuckoo and the swallow 226 



Canary birds 227 



Rapid flight of birds 227 



The bones and muscles of 



birds .* 227 



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Eyes of birds 228 



The ostrich 228 



The goat 228 



The horse 229 



Fishes 229 



The whale 230 



The herring 231 



Oysters 231 



White-bait 232 



Lampreys 232 



Free martins 233 



Eggs :233 



