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INDIAN TURNIP. 
coming nature, and obtaining a positive good from that which 
in its natural state is evil. The cassava, from the flour of which 
the bread made by the natives is manufactured, being the starchy 
parts of a poisonous plant of the Euphorbia family, the milky 
juice of which is highly acrid and poisonous. The pleasant and 
useful article sold in the shops under the name of tapioca is also 
made from the Cassava root. 
