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other food. The cultivation of the vine suc-
ceeds only in countries where the annual tem-
perature is between 50 and 63 degrees. In both
hemispheres, the profitable culture of this plant
ceases within 30 degrees of the equator, unless in
elevated situations, or in islands, as Teneriffe.
The limits of the cultivation of maize and of olives
in France are parallel to those which bound the
vine and corn in succession to the north. In the
north of Italy, west 0f Milan, we first meet with
the cultivation of rice; which extends over all the
southern part of Asia, wherever the land can be
at pleasure covered with water. In great part of
Africa millet is one of the principal kinds of
grain.

Cotton is cultivated to latitude 40 in the new
world, but extends to Astrachan in latitude 46 in
the old. The sugar cane, the plantain, the mul-
berry, the betel nut, the indigo tree, the tea tree,
repay the labours of the cultivator in India and
China; and several of these plants have been
transferred, with success, to America and the
West Indies. In equinoctizil America a great
number of inhabitants find abundant nourishment
on a narrmv space cultivated with plantain,
cassava yams, and maize. The bread fruit tree
begins to be cultivated in the hlanillas, and
extends through the Pacific; the sago palm in
the Moluccas, the cabbage tree in the Pelew
islands.