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most delicious fruits, also, winch are never exported to our 

 markets, but which might be sold here regularly. Instead of 

 those diminutive, insipid pine-apples, which we get from the 

 West Indies, wc might have those magnificent fruits which 

 grow in "the valley of the Amazon, which are pine-apples on 

 a gigantic scale ; so sweet, that sugar would only spoil them ; 

 so fragrant that they exceed all that is known among fruits ; 

 and they can be easily brought to us. When I left Para, I 

 bought one of these fruits for two cents, and brought it with me 

 to Cambridge. It was seen in New York by some of my 

 friends, who said they would give twenty or a hundred dollars 

 to be able to present on festive occasions such a fruit upon their 

 tables. Now, that fruit can be bought for two cents apiece at 

 Para, and can be brought to our market with the greatest ease, 

 for I have done it myself. And what is true of fruits, what is 

 true of dyestufifs, is equally true of a variety of oils which all 

 these plants produce, and which would probably supply a great 

 deficiency in many articles of manufacture. 



But I will not trespass upon your time any longer. I thank 

 you for your attention. 



Dr. LoRiNG moved that the thanks of the Board be presented 

 to Prof. Agassiz for his able and interesting lecture, which 

 motion was carried, and the Board adjourned. 



THIRD DAY — Morning Session. 



The Board met at 9 o'clock, Mr. Alexander Hyde, of Lee, 

 in the chair. 



Before resuming the consideration of the subject of plough- 

 ing, some discussion took place with reference to the appoint- 

 ment of a chairman for a year, instead of a day, and also as to 

 the propriety of limiting the time to be occupied by the speakers, 

 which terminated by the adoption of a motion, submitted by 

 Mr. George A. King, of Barnstable, that the general subject be 

 committed to the committee appointed last year, and that they 

 be requested to report upon the subject the first day of the 

 meeting in January. 



On motion of Mr. Porter, Mr. King was added to the 

 committee. 



