Description of the Bermuda Islands , &c. 33t 



70 seers measure, and the seed requires to be moistened 

 with 12 Cucha seers (34- ale quarts) of tamarind water, in 

 which 2 seers of tamarinds have been infused. The produce 

 is 70 seers (4-^^^^^ij' ale gallons) of oil. The cake is used as 

 6oap to wash oil out of the hair of those who anoint them- 

 selves. 



The lioingny oil, produced from the seed of the robinia 

 mitis, is used for the lamp ; but it consumes very quickly. 

 It is also used externally in many diseases. Take 70 seers, 

 Pucca measure, of the seed freed from the pods, add 4 Cucha 

 seers measure of water (ixVo- ale quart), and beat them in a 

 mortar into a paste. Then tread the paste with the ieet; 

 and, having kept it for two or three days, dry it in the sun. 

 It is then put into the mill with one Cucha seer (19-jeg. cubi- 

 cal inches) of water. It produces 40 seers (2f ale gallons) 

 of oil. For fuel, the cake is mixed with cow-dung. 



The English weight, to which all the native weights are 

 reduced^ is the pound avoirdupois. 



LXII. Descriplion of the Bermuda Islands, and particularly 

 the Island of St, George. Addressed to the Directors of 

 the French Museum of Natural History, by M,A. F. Mi- 

 CHAUX, temporary Jgmit of the French Imperial Ad- 

 ministration of IVoods and Forests in North America'^, 



X EMBARKED at Bourdcaux on the 5th of February, 1806, 

 for the United States; my voyage having for its object to 

 collect and transmit to the administration in the department 

 of woods and forests, a great quantity of seeds and plant* 

 of sucli forest trees as might be naturalized in Franco, or 

 succeed in those uncultivated districts where our own indi- 

 genous trees refuse to grow. On the 23d of March the 

 American vessel, on board of which I was, fell in with the 

 I.eander, an English man-of-war, commanded by captain 

 Whitby, who, suspecting our cargo to belong to French 

 jnerchants_, sent the ship to Halifax, in Nova Scotia. I 



* From Annalcs du J^lnsvum d'HisioiTe NaturelUi tome viit. p. 355. 



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