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Besides these, it is asserted by several of the evidences, there are beautiful woods for cabinet work, and Mr. How states, that there are many parts of Africa, where the soil is the same as that in the Province of Guzzerat in the East Indies, where he found the real sandal-wood.


To the productions above may be added, in a sixth class, wax, honey, palm-oil, ivory, and gold; and in a seventh, plantanes, yams, sweet potatoes, eddoes, cassada, cocoa nuts, bananas, pine apples, oranges, limes, wild grapes, and all other tropical productions.

C H A P.VII.