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palms, cotton, sugar, rice, cocoa, and tobacco to 

 any extent. 



About 5,000 feet on the drier places wheat and 

 cattle and all European vegetables seem to thrive, 

 and probably oranges, figs, &c, would also grow. 

 I found on Sotchi, and it is probably also the case 

 on Mlanje and the Nyika country, an extremely 

 moist and humid ravine, just such a place as one 

 would suppose suited to tea, pepper, vanilla, and 

 the Landolphia rubber. 



On the exact zone of coffee, however, the climate 

 is too dry for tea, at least in most places ; too 

 valuable for wheat or cotton, and not exactly 

 suited for sugar or cocoa. 



Tobacco can certainly be recommended, for 

 when one smokes a really good cigar produced by 

 the first pioneer in tobacco-growing, whose know- 

 ledge of that art is derived from books and rule of 

 thumb, then one forms a very high idea of its 

 future. 



English potatoes and tomatoes certainly do well, 

 but they are very far from a good market. It is 

 possible merino sheep might be a success (vide 

 British Central African Gazette, vol. i. p. 3). 



Besides these may be suggested as well worth 

 trying beniseed or sesame, Cinchona, Indigo, jute, 

 and hemp. 



Such plants as nutmeg and rubber trees (Manihot 

 and Ficus) take so long to mature that they can 

 scarcely be recommended nowadays. 



