Si TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



Sugar, tobacco, red podded or Cayenne pepper, cotton, 

 fomc fpecies of Solanum, Indigo, and a multitude of others, 

 have not as yet their origin well afcertained. 



Prince Henry of Portugal put his difcoveries to immedi- 

 ate profit, and communicated what he found new in each 

 part in Europe, Afia, Africa, and America,, to where it was 

 wanting. It will be foon difficult to afcertain to each quar- 

 ter of the world the articles that belong to it, and fix up- 

 on tho-fe few that are common to all. 



Even wheat, the early produce of Egypt, is not a native 

 of it. It grows under the Line, within the Tropics, and as 

 far north and fouth as we know. Severe northern win- 

 ters ieem to be necefiary to it, and it vegetates vigoroufly 

 in froft and fnow. But whence it came, and in what fliape, 

 is yet left to conjecture. 



Though the ftripe of green wheat was continued all 

 along the Nile, it was interrupted for about half a mile on. 

 each fide of the coptifh convent. Thefe poor wretches 

 know, that though they may fow, yet, from the violence of 

 the Arabs, they ihall never reap, and therefore leave the 

 ground defolate. 



On the fide oppofite toSment, the ftripe begins again, and 

 continues from Sment to Mey-Moom,. about two miles, and 

 from Mey-Moom to Shenuiah, one mile further. In this- 

 final! ftripe, not above a quarter of a mile broad, befides 

 wheat, clover is fown, which they call Berfine. I don't think 

 it equals what I have feen in England, but it is fown and 



cultivated in the fame manner, 



Immediately 



