tSz TOREEN'S VOYAGE. 



ferve with a good microfcope whether the pol- 

 len goes down the whole Jlylus or not. 



Mufa Paradi/iaca, which our Swedijh Tail- 

 ors, together with the Malacca people, and 

 the Dutch t call Pifang, the Englijh Plantain- 

 tree, and the Portugueze Bananas, bore larger 

 fruit here than I have feen any where elfe ; 

 but a very lively imagination is required to fee 

 the figure of a crofs in a plantain-tree. 



PaJjiflora grew without the inclofures. 



Some Chefnut-trecs were preferved on ac- 

 count of their great age and fine lhade. 



The grapes of this ifland (which is fcarce 

 above ten Swedijh miles c round) yield, as I 

 Was told, between 30,000 and 50,000 pipes of 

 wine. 



It would not be accurate to judge of any 

 two nations by two of their cities alone; but 

 iince I have been at Cadiz and at Funchal, the 

 difference to me feemed greater than could 

 have been fuppofed, confidering. their religi- 

 on, climate, neighbourhood,. and language. A 



c See note* vol, I. p. 2. 



Sennor 



