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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
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Loubere of Siam Tom.1 p. 68. relates that thefe Trees are there tax’d 6. 
284. Maxd-lflo, p.205. found them in Madagafcar, @ 206, & p. 212. in 
Roles (Mand not fac from St. Thomas, p. 216. in Congo, & 219. in the 
Cape-Verd-Hles; Gr p» 221. and in the Azores. 
Weifh ap. Hackl. p. 2. p. 129. in Benin. | 
Hawks ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 462. about Vera Cruz c& p. 464 about Mexico. 
Philips ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 476. about Pasuco. 
Layfield ap. Purchas Vel. 4. p. 1165, at Porto Rico. An Anonymus Portu- 
galin Brafile, 2b, l1b.7. cap. 1. p- 1319. Ferdinando Giros, ib. cap. 10, p. 
1424.1n Tevra Auffralis incogutta, Gafpar de Cruz. Purchas. lib. 1, p. 178. 
i China, Cates ap. Hakl, p. 3. p. 537. in St. Fago one of the Cape-Verd- 
[fles. 
Finch ap, Purchas, lit. 4. cap. 4. p- 433. tells us thefe Trees are planted 
at Lahor in the King’s Garden. : 
Cliffe, ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 753. takes notice of them in Brafile. 
Ward ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 758. at Sierra Leona, | | 
Pretty tb.p 813- On Puna Ifland, and fays that both fweet and fowr 
grow at Chacala, eighteen Leagues from Cape-Corientes. That like- 
wife in Fava there are both fweet and fowr, p. 821. and in St. Helena, 
tb. $23. | 
Aa eacs dulces y agrios, are faid by Ovsedo Jib, 8. cap. 1. to be firft brought 
from Spain to the Welt-Indies, ae 
Orange-trees are thought by Hughes, p..46.. to grow. naturally in the 
Woods at Orange-Bay in Jamaica, both {weet and fowr in great 
Plenty. ) 
Smicdcainteliea Orange-trees in Bermudas, p.197- Ligon, p.14. in the 
Cape-Verd-Ifles. And in Barbados, p. 22. and p.7o. 
Clapham ap. Boyle of Air, p. 17% in Tenariffe. 
Rawolfe, cap. 2. faw them in great Plenty about Tripoli, and Jerufa- 
lem, b:b. 3. cap. 21, Gr cap. 6. about Aleppo, and Jib, 1. p. 2 cap, §- 
about dyna. | 
Hernan, Lopez de Caftagneda, cap. 8. & 9. near Mombaffa, both {weeter 
than in Portugal, and fowr, and in Zanzibar, cap, 27. where were Groves 
of them. 
Terry, p» 53- obferv’d ’em in Mohelia, & p.96. in the Great Mogul’s 
Country. 
Defer, dela Guinee by Liufchot, c. 5. in Congo. ; 
Jo. de Laet, lib, 15. ¢. 15. in Brafilein great Abundance, where they 
were hurt by the Ants. 
Fobfon, p. 130. faw them in Gambra. 
XLVI. Malus Aurantia Sinenfis. Fonft. Dendr. Cat. Fam. p. 211. Aue 
rantium Olyfiponenfe. Steerbeck Citricult, p.12. Orange delaChine, Pom- 
met. Pp. 233. Malus aurea cortice vefco Faponenfis Lufitanorum Griff, virid. p. 
44- Larangeina de China, 
The China Orange-Tree. 
Thefe Trees are planted in moft Plantations in Jamaica, and thrive 
extremely well, yielding the moft delicious Fruit, when ripe and frefh 
gather’d, I ever tafted of the Kind. 
There are (inthe Province of Canton in China) the beft fweet Oranges 
which hitherto we have known, which are eaten with the Skin. Parshas 
bib. 2. p. 366. 
LZ XLVIL. 
