3S& FRAGMENTS and* cbalmpagjie; the middling classes have recourse to brandy, rum, and gin; but the African effects this purpose at far less expense. A muselman procures ample temporary relief from worldly care for a mere trifle : he buys at the (attara), drug shop, for a penny, a small pipe of el keefoT haskisha; this completely effects his purpose. The leaves of this drug, which is a kind of hemp, are called el haskisha ; the flower of the plant is called el keef, and is much more powerful in its inebriating quality than the haskisha, but a pipe of the latter will have as powerful an effect ais two or three bottles of wine. It is said, that when the patient is under the influence of pleasant imaginations, the fume of this drug increases the sensation into the most pleasing delirium, engendering the most luxuriant images, and promoting a voluptuous vacuum. But when the person's ill fate tempts him to taste it in a melancholy mood, it protracts the gloomy moments, and gives the woes of life a longei" duration: he utters sighs and lamentations, he apprehends nothing but misery and misfortune, till the effect ofthedrug is exhausted, and he awakes from his dream of \roe.

division ofAgricultural Proper.

Agricultural property is ascertained by alargd stone laid at each corner of a plantation of corfl, a direct line is drawn from stone to stone