Te Nawal Fi of AMATCA 
There are many Woods of them in Brafle near the Shore, thefe 
Trees being there naturally produced. They ufe the Apple in the Eaft- 
Inilies, foak’d in Wine and Salt to take off its ungrateful Tafte to the 
Palate. Pif. Mant. a | 
An Anonymus Portugal of Brafile, ap. Parchas. lib. 7. cap. t. §. 5. p. 1306. 
tells us thatthe Apple cools much in hot Weather, and ftains Linen; 
the Nuts are eaten raw, laid in Water and blanch’d as Almonds, or roa- 
fted; they alfo make Marchpans and other Sweetmeats as Almonds. 
The Gum is good to paint and write, and is produced in great Store ; 
the Bark dyes Yarn and Veffels ferving for Pots; the Bark boil’d with Cop- 
pera thifd Part away, isa Remedy for old Sores healing them quickly ; 
the Indians make Wine of the Apples. 
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Of Pomiferous Trees, or, fuch as bear Apples. 
“FH E Plenty and Delicacy of the Pulp of many of the Fruits of thefe 
Trees have brought the Seeds of feveral of this Tribe to be planted 
in ‘Jamaica, from the Spanifh Main, while the Spaniards inhabited this 
Ifland, they being fole Mafters of the Continent. This is the Reafon 
why feveral Auona are found here, that are not to be met with in any 
of the Caribe Iflands, which, were not inhabited by that Nation. It will 
alfo appear that feveral of them are naturally the Production of Places 
about Pavama. The Opuntia are likewife here, numerous, and fo are 
the Ficas Indice and Calabafhes, but as to the two laft, in many of 
them my Obfervations are not fo full as 1 wilh they had been. : 
1. Fics Indica maxima cortice nigricante, folio oblongo, funiculis e fummis 
rami demilfis & radices agentibus fe propagans, fruitu caprificus.. Cat. Fam. 
p. 188. Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. dendr. p.15. An Ficus folits laurt Frattu maximo, 
vel minori. Plum, pl.Am. p.2i.Tournef. Inft. p.663 ? feu Ficus Indica fibris ex 
ipfa trunco exeuntibus eig, accrefcemtibus augens, Ray. Hift. 1438? Ar 
Uvifera arbor Americana per funiculos a fummis ramis ad terram a que dea 
miffos prolifera The Mangrove-Grape, Barbadenfibus ditka, Plukenet. Phyt. 
[ 4b. 83 FF 5 f 
The Fig-Tree. 
This Tree has Roots running a great many Yards round the Bottom 
of the Trunc, on the Surface of the Ground, winding and twining 
here and there on the Rocks; cover’d with a light grey Bark, and 
taking their Original from the Spurs which this Tree has, like thofe 
of the Cotton-Tree, The Body is as large as of any Tree, and as 
high, -cover’d with an almoft fmooth Bark, of a dark grey Colour. 
The Wood is foft.and not fit for many Ufes. The Trunc is divided to- 
Wares the Top into many Branches {pread on every Hand, whofe 
wigs are befet here and there with Leaves at a quarter of an Inch’s 
Diftance ; they ftand.on Inch long Foorftalks, are five Inches long, and 
half as broad in the Middle, where broadeft ; {mooth, of a very dark 
green Colour, having one middle and many tranfverfe Ribs, Ex alis 
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