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As the figure of this plant is true and exact beyond all 

 manner of exception, I cannot but think it may be found in 

 latitudes 1 1 or 12 north in the Weil Indies or America ; and 

 having been found a gentle, fafe, and efficacious medicine in 

 Abyflinia, it is not doubted but the fuperior fkill of our 

 phyficians would turn it to the advantage of mankind in 

 general, when ufed here in Europe. In confequence of 

 the eftabliihed prerogatives of difcoverers, I have named 

 this beautiful and ufeful tree after Sir Jofeph Banks, Prefi- 

 dent of the royal Society. 



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T E F F. 



THIS grain is commonly fown all over Abyflinia, where 

 it feems to thrive equally on all forts of ground ; from 

 it is made the bread which is commonly ufed throughout 

 Abyflinia. The Abyflinians, indeed, have plenty of wheat, 

 and fome of it of an excellent quality : They likewife make 



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