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7563. RICE, African.—[continued].

In 1790, I got a cask of
heavy upland rice, from the river Denbigh, in
Africa, about lat. 9° 30′ North, which I sent
to Charleston, in hopes it might supersede the
culture of the wet rice, which renders South
Carolina and Georgia so pestilential through
the summer.—
Jefferson's MSS. Washington ed. i, 176.
(M. 1821)