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... India , first to Egypt , and afterwards to the south of Europe ; they brought also the plantain from India to Western Asia , Egypt , and Barbary ; by them was the durra , or , as they called it , the Moorish millet , diffused over the ...
... India , first to Egypt , and afterwards to the south of Europe ; they brought also the plantain from India to Western Asia , Egypt , and Barbary ; by them was the durra , or , as they called it , the Moorish millet , diffused over the ...
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... India . Among the medicinal vegetables we receive from distant countries are rhubarb , from India and Turkey ; jalap , from Mexico ; senna , from Aleppo , Alexandria , and Tinnevelly ; camphor , from Batavia ; strychnine , from Ceylon ...
... India . Among the medicinal vegetables we receive from distant countries are rhubarb , from India and Turkey ; jalap , from Mexico ; senna , from Aleppo , Alexandria , and Tinnevelly ; camphor , from Batavia ; strychnine , from Ceylon ...
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... India from an admixture of wax and cocoa nut fat . It is also not unfrequently used as an article of food , in the form of butter in India , and of cocoa and chocolate in this country , and has recently been introduced as a medicinal ...
... India from an admixture of wax and cocoa nut fat . It is also not unfrequently used as an article of food , in the form of butter in India , and of cocoa and chocolate in this country , and has recently been introduced as a medicinal ...
Términos y frases comunes
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