native woods, with essences, perfumes, and splendid veils, slippers,
caps, guns, and swords.

Algeria now belongs to France; it was formerly one of the Barbary
States, in the north of Africa, and many very useful plants and trees
flourish there; oranges, melons, cucumbers, cabbages, lettuces, and
artichokes, grow in great luxuriance. The sugar-cane is cultivated
with success; and everywhere may be seen quantities of white roses,
from which a sweet essence is extracted. The stems of the vines, which
the people tend, are sometimes so thick, that a man can hardly put his
arms round them; and the bunches of grapes are a foot and a-half long.
Only think of bunches of grapes half a yard long! they must be
something like those which we read of in the Bible, that were brought
to Joshua, to show him what a fertile country was the land of Canaan.

Acacia and cork trees grow in the woods of Algeria; the natives obtain
gum from the acacia. There are many mines, but the Algerines make no
use of them. The people themselves are strong in body, and of a tawny
complexion.

Tunis is another of the Barbary States, and contains a great number of
people,--Moors, Turks, Arabs, Jews, and Christians, merchants and
slaves. All these carry on a large trade in Morocco leather, linens,
gold-dust, oil, woollen cloth, lead, ostrich feathers, horses, and
soap. There are the same variety of vegetable productions that there
are in Algeria.

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The Cape of Good Hope is in the south of Africa; it produces fine