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powerful beverages of the country.
The grapes are very sweet and
even at this late date I can
bring them in a state of good
preservation but somewhat dried
up. They taste more like raisins
than any thing else – so sweet are
they. Citrons and melons and such
things grow in great abundance
with little care.

But everything has to be irrigated
and the ditches here resemble
canals in size. So great is the
drain on the river that it has
been known to go dry down
here. In fact such was the case
last year and consequently,
the crops failed and when at
last the water came down the
river there was such universal