DETENTION AT URES. 
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during my residence of three months I saw none. 
Oranges, lemons, quinces, pomegranates, and peaches, 
abound. There is, too, a solitary date-tree within the 
Date Tree, Ures. 
limits of the town ; but I could hear of no others near, 
and presume this to be an exotic. The sugar cane 
grows remarkably well in the bottom lands, and is cul- 
tivated in sufficient quantities to supply a small sugar 
mill. Nothing, however, is made but the common 
pilonce^ an article inferior to the most ordinary brown 
sugar of commerce. Cotton of a superior quality, I 
was told, is raised here, though not to any extent. 
