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])k!it incrcafcs in fize, driven out of the fhell through tlie aperture 

 before noted. 



Tliofe, who have lived many years in India, affirm, that tliere is 

 no tree fo bejieficial, or which produces fo many conveniences to 

 mankind, as tlie Coroa ; and tiiat it is converted to upwards of 

 fixty different ufes by man. The nut not only fup])hes him with 

 food and drink, but from the 2iut is alfo extrafled a liquor not much 

 luilike tlic Ipirit diflilled from barley, and from the fame nut vinegar 

 is made. The tree itfelf furnidies mads for fmallcr vellels, and the 

 capjllamcnts or filaments which furround the nut are partly wove 

 into fail-cloth, and partly twilled into cables, which are ufed even for 

 large fliips. If the trunk of the tree be pierced with a fmall inci- 

 fion, there will flow from the wound, every day, a quart of excellent 

 liquor, and this operation may be performed twice in the year ; the 

 trees, however, which arc thus treated, are deprived of their fertility 

 for that year. 



If we compare the fize of the Cocoa-nut, with the very fmall plant 

 it contains, we may i'afely lay, that the nut is above one hundred 

 tlioufand times larger than the plant, and we may thence conclude 

 that this nut, and the pleafant liquor it contains, are deftincd by na- 

 ture, or v>hich is the fame, by Providence, for the ufe of man, and to 

 i'upply many of his \\ants. 



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