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

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

 have not as yet their origin well ascertained. 



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 thofe 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 feem to be neceflary to it, and it vegetates vigorously 

 in froft and fnow. But whence it came, and in what ihape r 

 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 orr 

 each fide of the coptifh convent. Thefe poor wretches 

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

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

 ground deiblate. 



On the fideoppofite to Sment, 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 

 fmall llripe, 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 fcen in England, but it is fown and 

 cultivated in the fame manner. 



Immediately 



