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South Carolina. By which Accident, that Colony has acquired a most beneficial Staple, and Asia has been deprived of a considerable article of its importation to Europe.
4.
Coffea Arabica. Linn. The Coffee Tree.
It is not long since the Coffee Tree was translated from the East to the West Indies, but its Cultivation has been so vigorously prosecuted that the West India Coffee has now considerably diminished the importation of that Commodity from the East.
One hundred acres of tolerable Land in Jamaica afford of Coffee £1400 annually of the Currency of that Island.H
5.
Amomum Zinziber. Linn Ginger
Ginger is a Native of the Equinoctial parts of Asia, where it still grows wild. It was first brought from the Philippine Islands to New Spain by Francisco de Mendoza.I From thence it passed in to the West Indies, which now supply all Europe with this Commodity. Formerly it was imported from India by Cairo, but now the American Ginger is carried to the Levant.K
6.
Tamarinous indica. Linn. The Tamarind Tree.
There are entire Woods of this Tree in Sumatra, and in several other Islands under the Line in Asia but it is in no where a Native of America. It was first translated by the Spaniards from the Manillas and planted at Acapulco. From
H. Ibid. p. 285. Brown's Nat. hist. of Jamaica p. 285.
I. Ibid. p. 270.
K. Ibid. p. 285.