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and divided into feveral bells, each con- 

 taining a lock of cotton, intermixed with 

 fmall blackifh feeds. Thefe trees bear 

 after nine months growth, and produce 

 two crops annually, each crop amount- 

 ing to near a pound. The crops of 

 cotton, however, in this country, are 

 fomewhat precarious, and are frequent- 

 ly damaged by the early commence- 

 ment and long duration of the rainy 

 feafons. 



The Sugar Cane has been fo often 

 defcribed, that I fhall pafs it over in 

 filence. 



The Plantin Tree is natural to Ame- 

 rica as well as Ethiopia, having been 

 immemorially cultivated by the Indians 

 on every part of the Continent between 

 the Tropics. The trunk arifes from 

 feveral white bulbous roots, and is about 



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