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COCHINCHINA. 



Other Productions of the Couktry. 



LAND inCodunchina,whencultivated»is 

 extremely fertile, and tlie people reap every 

 yeax two crops of rice, which is fold altnofl 

 for nothing. This country abounds with 

 all the fruits of India, fuch as ananas, man- 

 goes, citrons, oranges* and with many others 

 peculiar to itfelf. It produces ^alfo plenty of 

 pepper, together with arec and betel. Arec^ 

 in feveral provinces, forms the principal 

 liches of the inhabitants j and large quanll- 

 lies of it are every year fold to the Ghinefe, 

 who come hither to procure it, They have 

 olfo abundance of cotton ; but tliey are not 

 acquainted with the art of making it into 

 fine cloth. They cultivate mulberry-trees, 

 upon which they feed fi Ik -worms, and ma-* 

 nufadure a kind of coarfe filk fluffs. They 

 do not, however, fuccced but in feme kinds 



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