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THE BRAZILS. 
in England would have cost from twenty-four to thirty-four 
pounds a ton. 
Wheat, barley, Guinea corn, millet and ail the European 
and tropical grains are produced in the gxeatest abundance ; 
and all species of provisions and supplies for victualling and 
storing ships, and fitting them out for actual service at sea, 
are procuraljle at moderate rates in almost all the ports of the 
Brazils. At Rio de Janeiro alone a navy might be built, 
equipped, and fitted with every necessary for a sea voyage, 
sufficient to command the navigation of the Southern Atlantic ; 
and the fisheries, by proper encouragement, would create a 
never-failing supply of seamen. Both the black whale and 
the spermaceti are plentiful on every part of the coast. 
In addition to the timber for naval purposes, which every 
where abounds, the forests of the Brazils supply a number of 
valuable woods for dyeing, as the CcBsalpinea Braziliensis or 
Brasilletta, the H(Ematoxylum Campechianum or logwood, and 
the Moms tinctoria or fustic wood, all of which, however, 
are royal monopolies. Of medicinal plants they have the 
bark, the jalap, the ipecacuanha root, the palma Christi, 
and many others too numerous to mention, with a great 
variety of odoriferous plants, and trees that yield turpentine, 
gums, and resins. Tobacco and pepper may be cultivated 
to any extent, and the fields and the forests afford an inex- 
haustible supply of wax and honey. The tropical fruits of 
every description, whether of the eastern or western hemi- 
sphere, are good in quality and abundantly plentiful. The 
oranges, pine apples, and mangoes are exquisite. All kinds 
