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the fourth year, abundant crops. Wherever the soil is not 
exhausted, the fruit has become by cultivation larger and 
bitter, but also later. 
On seeing the produce of cacao gradually diminish in 
terra i irma, it may be inquired, whether the* consumption 
will diminish in the same proportion in Spain, Italy, and 
the rest of Europe ; or whether it be not probable, that by 
he destruction of the cacao plantations, the price will 
augment sufficiently to rouse anew the industry of the 
?i U iva ?' ' , Alns latter opinion is generally admitted by 
ose w 10 deplore, at Caracas, the diminution of so ancient 
and. profatable a branch of commerce. In proportion as 
Snv e ^ ten &\towards the tumid forests of the inte- 
’ ii 0 *te Orinoco and the Amazon, or towards 
the valleys that furrow the eastern declivity of the Andes 
he new planters will find lands and an atmosphere equally 
favourable to the culture of the cacao-tree. P ^ ' 
w itlitli SpaiUardS ’ m ." cueral > dislik e a mixture of vanilla 
witli the cacao, as irritating the nervous system; the fruit 
the r 5 ° r ®’ ° f 0rcludeous P knt is entfrely neglected in 
be ° f ?i araCaS ’ th °ugh abundant crops of it might 
PalS ? 1 re< a °rl tllC molst and f ever i s h coast between Porto 
fruits of espCC 1 i ; tll - v at Turiamo, where the 
irmts of the Epidendmm vanilla attain the length of eleven 
or twelve inches. The English and the Anglo-Americans 
often seek to make purchases of vanilla at the port of Tn 
G-uayra, but the merchants procure with rhffin 
“S !”»%' tie 
of the coast towards the Caribbean Sea in +ho • /■ 
SSo“- m the M » r “ Sfcli! 
be coUected rtl ' 0 ’ a ? eat ; quantity ol vanilla might 
SuSEmt W ’ t / r °? C0 , 0± whlch ™nld be still more 
DlaTt woi^’ - dn !p ° the P ractice of the Mexicans, the 
T c ^engaged, from tune to time, from the creeping 
plants by which it is entwined and stifled. 1 ° 
of vl a i nd fertile valle e vs of the Cordillera of the coast 
towL e r Z !i ela a tract of k ud which, on the west, 
variety 8 of ' 6 laie °£ ] ^ aca y^ 0 ? displays a remarkable 
this A SC f,! lel J- f ®hall exhibit in one view, to close 
hap ter, the tacts I have been able to collect respecting 
