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extended parts which farround tlie upper part of the 3'oung plant, or, 

 more properly fpeaking, the whole of that plant. 

 - Let us luppofe then, that I have cut off a fmall flice of that part 

 which m/g. 13 is pictured between G and H, and, that in^^-. 17, a 

 fmall part of the circumference of this flice, and of the fkin inclofing 

 it, are defcribed at V V/X. By T, and by V W X Y, tk.t iubftance 

 is exprefl'ed, in which the young plant, or rather the upper part of 

 it, is as it were, inclofed and wrapped up. The parts of this fub- 

 ftance, exhibit the appearance of fmall vefl'els, which lie difpofed in- 

 fuch ftraight lines, that they naturally feem defigned to convey nou- 

 rifliment to'the plant. But, in the part pi61:ured at H, ni^g. 13, and 

 where there will be found a kind of fwelling, thefe veffels are 

 flretched out to fuch a degree of finenels, that none of the parts with- 

 in tliem can be diflinguiflied witliout the greateft attention. 



As the kernels of Almonds, Walnuts, Peaches, and Plumbs, 

 which are inclofed in fhells, are denominated the feeds of their re- 

 i'peflive trees, fo the Cocoa-nut, or fruit of the Cocoa tree, ought to 

 be reckoned among the feeds of trees. In the feeds, however, of the 

 -trees I have firft mentioned, whofe fliells are all formed with a feam 

 or joining, thofe fhells, when the vegetation proceeds, and the ker- 

 nel fwells, open at the feam, and the young plant in the kernel, hav- 

 ing more fpace afforded it, can expand in its growth, and ftrike its 

 root into the earth. But the fliell of tlie Cocoa-nut has not any feam 

 or joining, being of an equal ftrength and thicknefs throughout, 

 therefore its vegetation mull be provided for in a different man- 

 ner ; and this I conclude to be as follows. The moiftiire in the 

 Cocoa-nut being inclofed and confined on every fide, when it begins 

 to be agitated by that intefline motion, produced by heat, muft ne- 

 ceflarily expand itfelf with great violence, and, by that expanfion, 

 the part which contains in it the young plant, is by degrees, as the 



