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Rh cocoa plants. Such is Clieu's account of the introduction of coffee into the Windward Islands, which soon became an inexhaustible source of wealth to four-fifths of their inhabitants.

ingenious and enterprising Belzoni, whose researches added so much to our knowledge of Egyptian antiquities, was a native of Padua, in Italy. Originally destined for a monk, he passed his younger days in Rome, where he was busily pursuing his theological studies, when the sudden entry of the French into that city altered the course of his education, and compelled him, as he says, to be a wanderer for the remainder of his days. Belzoni visited several parts of Europe, and was for some years in London. His family supplied him occasionally with remittances; but, as they were by no means rich, he resolved not to be a burthen to them, and contrived, as well as he could, to live on his own industry. Fortunately his time in Rome had not been entirely spent in the study of theology; a taste for physical science had led him to the study of hydraulics, and this enabled him to obtain employment as an engineer, in which business he finally embarked on his own account. Having married an English lady, he visited the south of Europe, and finally determined to go to Egypt, to test his favourite idea of irrigating by a