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vicinity, oftimes, thickets of the fervice-tree dif- 

 play for their ufe the fhining clutters of their fear- 

 let berries. 



In the Winters of our climates, many ever- 

 green (hrubs, as the ivy, the privet, and others, 

 which remain loaded with black or red fruit, con- 

 trafting flrikingly with the fnow, as the prime- 

 print, the thorn, and the eglantine, prefent to the 

 winged creation both a habitation and food. In 

 the countries of the Torrid Zone, the earth is 

 clothed with frefh liannes, and (haded with trees 

 of a broad foliage, under which animals find a 

 cool retreat. The trees themfelves, of thofe cli- 

 mates, feem afraid of expofing their fruits to the 

 burnifig heat of the Sun : inftead of rearing them 

 as a cone, or exhibiting them on the circumfe- 

 rence of their heads, they frequently conceal them 

 under a thick foliage, and bear them attached to 

 their trunks, or at the fprouting of their branches: 

 fuch are the jacquier, the banana, the palm-tree of 

 every fpecies, the papayer, and a multitude of 

 others. If their fruits invite not the animals ex- 

 ternally, by vivid colours, they call them by the 

 noife which they excite. The lumpifh cocoa-nut, 

 as it falls from the height of the tree which bears 

 ft, makes the earth refound to a confiderable dif- 

 tance. The black pods of the canneficier, when 

 ripe, and agitated by the wind, produce, as they 



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