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  ing the yaim, the cocoa, turmeric, common work, for which the smiths of
Malts are so
  ginger, pine apples, pears, oranges, lemons, noted the world over.
  limes, bread fruit, &c; seeds, nuts and pre-' But we may not linger.
Another step, and
  served fruits, coffee, pimento,; sugars, oils in we stand' as if transported
by magic, where
  great number, starches, flours, and 192 sam- ! the spicy breezes blow soft
o'er
  ples of rum!-chemical preparations, per-                  * "CRYLONSt5L
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  fumes, soap, wax, honey, choccolate, leather, 'Te satinwood, the ebony,
and the cocoanut
  fibrous mats, window blinds, calabaslhes, and     wh  its multifoth   produtse
  sugar,
                     . , ~~~~~~~palm. withl its multiform products-oil, sugar,
  a great variety of miscellaneous articles;
  specimens of printing and binding; ladies' arrack, vinegar, ropes, nets,
mats, torches,
                                              calabashes. furniture, &c.,
&c.-betel nuts,
 ornamental work: engravings, photograplls,
 ornamentaolwork erngrofJavaingscphotora, a cinnamon trees and cinnamon bark,
cotton,
 watnumber- r drawilngstofeJamricascncviews ad rice, tobacco, coffee, pepper,
numerous spices
 a number of excellcat stereoscopic views of ..
 Jamaica.                                    which we have not time to name,
and bread-
                                              fruit; fibres in great variety,
seeds without
   Jamaica has nowv a population of about number, and tropical fruits in
abundance, pre-
 380,000, mostly colored. and is gradually in- served in spirits.  The air
is filled with the
 creasing in importance.                     sweet odor of the spicy isle,
huge elephant's
   The display made by the other islands is of tusks lie around, the broad
palm-leaf hats and
 similar character, and need not be so mllilnlute- palm umbrellas are overhead,
the ear is now
 ly exam ined,                              r and then sailted by articulations
of what is
   Next to the West Indies co,,es            known to be the Cingalese tongue,
and one
                   MALTA,                   j finds but little difficulty
in imagining himself
 Some four thousand miles, more or less. trom  to be a veritable inhabitant
of this most in-
 Jamaica. A long distance, if we were to take teresting island of the Indian
Ocean.
 a ship and cross over the sea to where it lies  Another wave of the wand,
and we stand
 in the warm lap of the Mediterranean ; but I in the midst of the forest
timber, the rocks
 only a step here in the Great Exhibition.  and minerals, the ores, the skins
and furs, the
   We shall find none of the beautiful woods agricultural products, and the
machinery and
here which added so much to the interest of implements of
the Jamaica display, for in Malta therc are        TilE CANADIAN PiOVlIOCE8
no forests-scarcely brushwood even.  The    These are most admirably represented,
es-
sirocco which blows from the African coasts peoially in the departmentof
natural produc-
will not tolerate their growth. Nevertheless tions. In the centre of the
north end of the
the nations, who are supposed to have come Transept stands a magnificent
trophy of tim-
originally from the Arabic stock, are skillful her which opens wide the eyes
of all but
workers in wood, and have acquired quite a Americans (who are familiar with
gigantic
notoriety for their cabinet ware.        'trees) and attracts very great
attention. This
  Cotton is the staple product, and we have trophy is 90 feet high, the timber
composing
here before us interesting samples of the raw  it being sections, transverse
and longitudinal,
material and of the fabrics (Miiteisu veetia) of walnut, oak, ash, pine,
and the other for-
which have long enjoyed a high reputation in eat timber grown in Canada.
Here are pine
Rome and the Italian States generally. But planks of great length and fifty
inches wide
the most remarkable articles in the Maltese -without a knot-sawn from trees
22 feet in
Court are, the famous Maltese lace, which oc- circumference   120 feet to
the first limb
curs in patterns of great variety and beauty and 250 feet high. And here
are most splen-
-capes, collars, shawls, coiffures, &c., &c.- did polished plank
and squared timbers of
and the exquisite gold and silver filagree the beautiful black walnut, such
as a vast ma-