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use their seed for medicinal purposes. In
the interior of the province all the oases, as
well as the cultivated lands in the vicinity of

its towns, are alike productive, and the follow­
ing list applies to them collectively; but many

of the fruits are not found in gardens near the
sea-coast. I may be pardoned the dry detail
of such a catalogue, since it will convey,

better than any lengthened description, an
idea of the natural productions of a country

hitherto regarded as a desert. Nor must it
be forgotten that all contained in this list,
amounting to twenty different kinds, are often

reared in a space not more than three or four
hundred yards in diameter.