. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. e seeds, coriander,the mulberry, grape, cotton, sugar-cane, dragons-blood tree(Dracaena), and a variety of esculent plants and fruits. ^&The celebrated Canary wine is made chiefly in the islands \^ffof Tenerifte and Canary. Potatoes have been introducedwithin the last fifty years, and now constitute the chieffood of the inhabitants. The archil (Rocc
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. e seeds, coriander,the mulberry, grape, cotton, sugar-cane, dragons-blood tree(Dracaena), and a variety of esculent plants and fruits. ^&The celebrated Canary wine is made chiefly in the islands \^ffof Tenerifte and Canary. Potatoes have been introducedwithin the last fifty years, and now constitute the chieffood of the inhabitants. The archil (Roccella tinctoria)[fig. 156. a), a moss used in dyeing, grows wild on all therocks ; and kali Salscla Kali) ( b), from which sodais extracted, is found wild on the sea-shore. The roots of themale fern (Pteris aquilina) are, in times of scarcity, groundinto flour, and used as food. The live stock of theCanaries consists of cattle, sheep, horses, and asses ; andthe well-known Canary birds, with a great variety of others, /d(£&abound in the woods. O-r^SSZ^ 1147. The Island of Madeira is chiefly celebrated for its wine. It is the boast of theislanders, that their country produces the best wheat, the purest sugar, and the finest N 4. 184 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Taut T. wines in tlic world, besides being blest with the clearest water, the most salubrious air,and a freedom from all noxious reptiles. The lir^t view of the island is particularlymagnificent ; the country rising in lofty hills from every part of the coast, so steep as tobring very distant objects into the foreground. The sides of these hills are clothed withvines as high as the temperature will admit; above this they are clothed with woods orverdure to their summits, as high as the sight can distinguish ; except those columnarpeaks, the soil of which 1i;ls been washed away by the violent rains to which those lati-tudes, and especially such elevated parts, are liable. Deep ravines or valleys descendfrom the hills to
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