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true fpecies. There are two varieties, one with a fmall fruit 

 full of feed, capable of propagation in the univerfal manner. 

 This is the ftock of the other, and is called by Rumpbius, i. 

 p. 112. tab. xxxii. Soccus Granofus\ the other has no feeds, fo 

 is only cultivated by cutting ; this is the kind in general ufe. 

 It is engraven and well defcribed by Do6lor For/ier^ in his Ge- 

 nera, p. 51. tab. xli. li. A, and in his fon George's, PL Efcul, 

 Ins. oceani Aujlralis, p. 25 ; and there is an excellent one by 

 my late friend Mr. Ellis, who has collected every thing relative 

 to it. Dr. Forjier gives it the apt name of Arto-carpos, from 

 APTOS bread, and KAPnoS fruit. It is fpread over the Ladrone 

 ifles, the Marquifes, new Hebrides, the Society, the Friendly and 

 the Sandwich ifles, and rarely on the ille of New Caledonia. Its 

 mod weftern fituation is the Philippines and Princes ille, in 

 the ftreights of Sunda. A farther account fhall be given of 

 this ufeful tree. I fhall only add, that we are obliged to our 

 countryman Da?npier (Voy. i. p. 296.) for the difcovery. 



Sugar Cane. I SHALL repeat my notice of the Sugar cane, merely to fay, 



that there is no place in which it grows with greater vigour, or 

 is more produdlive of its juice, or capable of being manufac- 

 tured into finer fugar than in Bengal. A heavy duty, nearly 

 mounting to a prohibition, at prefent deprives us of the ufe of 

 it in the parent country, where fugar is now become a neceffary. 

 We now feel the power of monopolifts, and trufl in the mercy 

 of legiflature to releafe us from their fangs. 



Bengal besert. Having taken notice of a necefTary, from the vegetable king- 

 dom, I Ihall give the luxuries, which it yields to a Calcutta 

 table, or the fupplies for a Bengal defert. I am indebted to 



Mrs. 



