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manufacture of a coarse cotton cloth which circulates as 
current money in Abyssinia was established there. The 
soil in the neighbourhood is deep enough for the culti¬ 
vation of corn. 
“ In these districts,” says Bruce, “ there are three 
harvests a year. The first seeds are sown in July and 
August, when the rain flows abundantly. In the same 
RUINS OF AN ANCIENT GREEK CHURCH. 
season they sow c tocusso,’ £ teff,’ and barley. About 
the 20th of November they reap the first barley, then 
the wheat, and last of all the £ teff.’ In some of these 
they sow immediately upon the same ground without 
any manure, barley, which they reap in February, and 
then often sow £ teff,’ but more frequently a kind of 
vetch or pea, called £ shimbra ’; these are cut down before 
the first rains, which are in April; yet with all the 
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