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X As the growth of cane & peach are the signals to the planters of cotton, sugar, tobacco &c, So is the musquit tree & musquit grasses to the herdsman and shepherd in the selection of lands. x The indians are said to eat the seeds of the Musquit tree, which is a species of locust; the Mexicans feed their hogs on them.

x it is something like the blue grass of the United States.

 Beautiful furniture has been manufactured from the Musquit wood, & it might be made a valuable object of exportation. The natives in their admiration of this wood call it Texan Mahogany.