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ttsre, that the bundle of branches of a plant which Uorus 

 Apollo fays the ancient Egyptians produced as the food on 

 which they lived before the difcovery of wheat, was not the 

 papyrus, as he imagines, but this plant, the Enfete, wnich. 

 retired to its native Ethiopia upon a fubftitute being /bund 

 better adapted to the climate of Egypt. 



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IN' that memorable day when leaving' the Samhar, or low 

 flat parched country which forms the fea-coaft of Abyffi- 

 nia, and turning weftward,we came to the foot of that ftupen- 

 dous mountain i aranta, which we were to pafs in order to 

 enter into the high land of Abyflinia, we faw the whole 

 iide of that prodigious mountain covered from top to bot- 

 tom with this beautiful tree. We were entering a country 

 where we daily expecled wonders, and therefore, perhaps, 

 were not fo much furprifed as might have been fuppofed 

 at fo extraordinary a fight. The fruit was ripe, and being 

 carried on the top of the branches, the trees that Mood thick 



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