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fumed rice in tlie Ea.st'^^Indies, which gives a cu« 

 rious flavor in the dressing. And with this sort 

 America is not yet acquainted ; neither can I learn 

 that any of it has been brought over to Europe, 

 the rice of Carolina being esteemed the best that 

 comes to that quarter of the world. It is of great 

 increase, yielding from eight hundred to a thou- 

 sand fold, and thrives best in wild land that has 

 never been broken up before. 



Buckwheat is of great increase in Carolina ; 

 but we make no other use of it, than instead of 

 maiz, to feed hogs and poultry ; and guinea corn, 

 which thrives well here, serves for the same use. 



Of the pulse kind, we have many sorts. The 

 first is the bushel bean, which is a spontaneous 

 product. They are so called, because they bring 

 a bushel of beans for one that is planted. They 

 are set in the spring, round arbors, or at the feet 

 of poles, up which they will climb and cover the 

 wattling, making a very pretty shade to sit under. 

 They continue flowering, budding and ripening 

 all the summer long, till the frost approaches, 

 when they forbear their fruit and die. The stalks 

 they grow on come to the thickness of a man's 

 thumb ; and the bean is white and mottled, with 

 a purple figure on each side it, like an ear. They 

 are very flat, and are eaten as the Windsor bean 

 is, being an extraordinary well- relished pulse,, 

 either by themselves or with meat. 



We have the Indian rounceVal, or miraculous 

 peas, so called from their long pods, and great in- 



