Besides _Turkey_ wheat, barley, and cotton[6], they sow in the fields, cicers[7], lentils[8], beans[9], chickling[10], small vetch[11], sesamum, ricinus, hemp, a green kidney bean[12], called by the natives mash, and much eat; musk melon[13] water melon[14], a small sort of cucumber called ajour, fennel-flower[15], fœnugreek[16], bastard-saffron[17], _Turkey_ millet. About _Aleppo_ they sow no oats, their horses being all fed with barley; but near _Antioch_, and on the coast of _Syria_, I have seen some few fields of them. Near the city tobacco[18] is planted in the gardens only, but in the villages about ten or fifteen miles off a large quantity is planted in the fields, and all the hills from _Shogre_ to _Latachia_ produce such plenty of this vegetable that it makes no inconsiderable branch of trade, particularly with _Egypt_. The harvest commences with the barley about the beginning of _May_, and that, as well as the wheat, is generally all reaped by the twentieth of the same month. The more wet the spring the later the harvest and the more plentiful the crop. As soon as it is cut down, or rather pluck’d up, (for this is their more usual way) it is carried to some neighbouring spot of hard even ground, and there dislodged from its hulk by a machine like a sledge, which runs upon two or three rollers, drawn by horses, cows, or asses. In these rollers are fixed low iron wheels, notched like the teeth of a law, and pretty sharp, at once cutting the straw and separating the grain. Their granaries are even at this day subterraneous grottos, the entry to which is by a small hole or opening like a well, often in the high way, and as they are commonly left open when empty, they make it not a little dangerous riding near the villages in the night. The cotton is not gathered till _October_, and such spots as are sown with it yield a pleasant verdure when every thing else seems to be burnt up. In the neighbourhood of _Aleppo_ there is no great quantity. The olives produced about the city are, as I apprehend, very little more than sufficient for pickling for the use of the inhabitants. But at _Edlib_, about thirty miles to the south west, and the other villages near it, they have large plantations affording yearly abundance of oil, with which, and the ashes brought by the _Arabs_ from the desart, a very considerable quantity of soap is annually made, some at _Aleppo_, but the greatest part at _Edlib_. When proper care is taken, the oil is very good, but as the people of the country are not nice in their taste, they are less disposed to be attentive about it. The ricinus furnishes an oil which serves the common people for burning in their lamps, and from the sesamum an oil likewise is extracted called seerage, consumed chiefly by the _Jews_.