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©f fatin. Raw filk is here fold at a very 

 ilear rate : a Cochinchinefe foot cofts fome- 

 times two hundred quam. The Cochinchi^ 

 nefe fugar is undoubtedly the finefl in India, 

 and this article alone brings imraenfe fums 

 frona the Chinefe merchants, who carry car- 

 goes of it from Faifo to Canton and Japan, 

 where they gain at leaft four hundred per 

 cent, by it. The be ft is fold for four quans 

 the Cochinchiucfe foot. It is aim oft all 

 made in the province of ChtiWy near Faifo. 

 The Cochinchinefe cut their canes before 

 the end of three years, and have a crop an- 

 nually in the autumn. None of thofe kinds 

 of grain which we have in Europe grow in 

 Cochinchina, except maize, or Turkey corn. 

 It produces neither wheat, l^^rlpy* nor rye^ 

 and even few peafe or beans. It is indeed 

 very ill fupplied with thofe vegetable pro- 

 {ludions which form the riches of our 



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