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Footitalks were two or three Foot long,.broad atthe Beginning, where 
they were fet on to the Tree, and were befee with loagicrgoked Prickles; 
the longeft being lowelt; the Fruit. hangs ona fuch, Foorltalks.as the 
Palometta- Royal, only: rauch fhorter. So97904 4 si gtd oft] 
~~ The Head of this Palm-Tree, which was brought me from Gainea,by 
Mr. Stapbor/t an iogenious Surgeon toa Merchant-Ship tradiag there, was 
roundifh, about one Foot and a half long, and one Foot Diameter inthe 
Middle where broadeft ; ic wasfomewhat flenderer. at Bottom and conical 
towards the Top, The Sralk of it which Jook’d fomething like a Rope, 
was about two Inches. Diameter, and..was compos’d altogether of many 
Fibres, brown and {trong ; each of them was as large as a grofs Thread, 
and. like, : but bigger than che. Fibres covering ‘the! Coco-Nut. .- Thefe 
Fibres were all cover’d with a .brown, fimeoth. Bavkiy Out. of this Stem 
on all Hands, ;arofe numberlefs, crooked,,Petioli, about fix Inches tong, 
on exch Side of which, grew great Numbers of crooked, blunt Prickles, 
berween, which wd.she Petiolus, lay. the. Fruit, much Jefs, but ia Shape 
and Colour refembling a fmall Chefnut; each Nut had two.or three 
brown, Scales, {urrounding it, -and was coverd with a Pulp full of Oil, 
about one fixth of an Inch thick, of a Saffron Colour, and fmelling 
fomething like Violets, Hach.Nut had a.fibrous Hilas.. Undgrahedily 
Pulp lay a hard, brown Shell, cover’d over with Fibres, and of; the 
Shape. of that. of the Coco-Nut, , only. ags\bigger than the,Filberd. The 
Shell was dark brown colour’d, about a fixth of am Inch, thick, and ia- 
clofed a white Kernel of the fame Shape, refembling the. Kernel of,a 
Coco-Nut, but it. was very hard and lignofe.. The Head and! Freit of 
this are figui’d, Tab; 2tg.g oA wu gg ag 
_, Amongft the feyeral vegetable: Subftances: which afford Oil, which is 
fo neceffary for maintaining Life and\promating Manufactures,. I know 
none but the Fryitof this and,.the .Olive-Tree wholeoPulps are ufeful 
for thefe. Purpoles ; Oil of Almonds, Walauts, dc. being from Kernels, 
and’ that of Rape, Muftard, Lin, oc. being drawn from their feveral 
Seeds... Twas fo, much furpriz’d with this Singularity, that to be fure 
of. it, Lawas atthe Pains.to,try the Experiment my. {elf at Montpelier, 
by. drawing the Ojl from the copious Pulp of that Sort of Plumb, fepa- 
raced: caretully from the Stone, whofe Kernel being mix’d in bruifing in 
their Mills for drawing Oil Olive, I apprehended, might afford moft of it. 
This Tree was, brought over with fome.others from Guinea in Tubs 
waterd by the Way; and then \planted. by Colonel Collbeck in his Plan- 
tation now belonging to Mr. Bernard, ~ ood 
. Phere grow: Palmeto Trees at: Cape Verd, which are as high asa Shiip’s 
Maig-Malt, and.on their Tops; grow Nuts, Wine, and Oil which they 
call Palmito-Wine, and Palmito Oil, Hortop, ap. Hakl. poz. p. 488. 
 Cadamofto, ap, Raman, p. 112, Lateed. p. 28. fays thap Wine is drawn out 
of its Foot which inebriates, and that its Oil {mells of Violets, taftes of 
Qi Olive, and hath the Colour of Saffron.;.he knew not whence it came, 
but found itin Semega, nS eet — re 
Sut Jobo Hawkins, p. 3. p..504- 4p. Haki. found this Tree in Guineas, where 
Towns were walled with Stakes and Palmito Leaves, and thatch’d with i, 
ib, They make the Rind of Palmito-Trees artificially into Mats, and of thefe 
Mats Partitions. The Inhabitants die upon fuch Mats laid on Sticks a Foot 
from the Ground, without any Covering unlefs fuch a Mat, #6. And Wine 
3 iy one Hole.cut,.in the Top of it, .by applying! a,Gourd, to receive 
AL P- 595 Fotis Dink; cf s sitiur bh evs ‘DOA Zeno #K ~ 
3; digan OF Barhados, 9. 96,.4ays shatthis, Troe was,newly. planted -then 
Libia the EalnSdoeose dats ie aod oll ee cam cack nse 
