Excerpt from Lettres Édifiantes Et Curieuses, Écrites des Missions Étrangères, Vol. 2: Memoires du Levant

L'i¿e de Siphanto a environ quinze lieues de tour. C'efi un beau pays dont le climat efi: fort doux on y voit quan tité de fources d'une eau très-claire on y trouve beaucoup d'oliviers dont on tire des huiles admirables. Le vin, le bled les légumes les fruits les câpres É'x le coton y abondent 5 les limoniers, les orangers, 8c les autres arbres de cette nature y feroient plus communs fi l'on S'appliquoit à les cultiver.

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