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agricultural investigations, I be ufif ful must often dis- 

 pense with the ornamental. 



The St rait* spice-planter ougftt not to he discourag- 

 ed heeausc only u feu of the pIiiu!ati >rH have as vet re- 

 turned tin* capita! sunk in forming iIk in. Let him re- 

 collect that he has got experience, a boon denied to his 

 precursors; ilia! prices have never \ el (alien, and it may, 

 with safety be said, are never likely to fall 1 *© low as to 

 rut off till profits ; and that by a continuance, it is to 

 be hoped, at the provident liberality of the British go- 

 vernment, a lighter duty will still be imposed on his 

 produce than on Dutch spices imported to England 

 and Bengal. 



The London dealers Ijave long since unequivocal I v 

 pronounced the Penan g mace ami cloves to be the 

 finest in the world, tin former being more sub>!antial 

 and flaky, the latter more full and more luscious in 

 colour than rfie importations from Auiboyna ; while 

 the nutmeg's are preferred to all others on account of 

 their general superiority and fresh n< s. 



But the English market, even werePenancr capable 

 of supplying it, is not the only our to which the plan- 

 ter has to look. A demand* exists amidst the myriads 

 of India, the ultimate extent of which, who will ven- 

 ture to appreciate ? China, ihe whole of the Ameri- 

 can States, Egypt, and Turkey are a few of the 

 countries which now bear the impress of civil and 



mural regeneration : fur, 



M Hri/fit Improvement on tfa car of time, 



" Now rules the spacious world, from clime to clinic; 



u Her handmaid arte now every wild explore, 



*• Trace every wave and culture every Bhore, 



** On Mudas* banks' where tie;er* stoic along, 

 " And ttie dark Samanp t yelled a dismal song, 

 "The wandering Doras of tlie forest gten — 

 " Now atari ro view the flittering fount* of men, 



• A river bounding Province Welles k-y. 



i A uild, woolly-headed nice of iu«n who wauderuhout the fc-rots, 



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