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London, England, 1869-05-18 00:00:00

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The editors of Illinois, one hundred and twenty
in number, have recently boon making an excursion
through the South, and have gone as far as Mobile, Ala-
bama. Despatches from that city state that the members
of the excursion party have expressed their decided ap-
proval of the South as suitable for manufacturing, com-
mercial, and industrial enterprises.
CALIFORNIA NUTMEGS.—Perhaps it is not gene-
rally known that the native nutmeg tree grows in the
Sierra Nevada range of mountains in California, but such
is the fact. We have with our own hands picked them
from the tree in the upper portion of Placer county, and
about the head waters of Feather River, and after properly
drying them, found them fully equal, in point of strength
and flavour, to those imported from the East Indies. Some
19 years or more have elapsed since that time, and of
course we are unable to describe with accuracy the nutmeg
tree of Calift:ilia, more than to ray that it resembles some
of the species of pine ;
and, in fact, most people would pass
it by, as we did at first, without suspecting it to be any-
thing else but a pine tree.—San Mateo Gazette, March 13.

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