304 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



water is immediately difcharged as a man can 

 drink at a draught: it is perfectly pure and limpid. 



In the fwamps of the Bay of Campeachy, tra- 

 vellers find relief of another kind. Thofe fwamps, 

 on a level with the Sea, are almoft entirely inun- 

 dated in the rainy feafon, and became fo parched 

 on the return of dry weather, that many huntfmen 

 who had happened to mifs their way in the forefts, 

 with which they are covered, actually perifhed with 

 third. The celebrated traveller Dompter relates, that 

 he feveral times efcaped this calamity, by means of 

 a very extraordinary fpecies of vegetation, which 

 had been pointed out to him on the trunk of a 

 kind of pine very common there; it refembles 

 a packet of leaves, piled one over another in tiers; 

 and, on account of it's form, and of the tree on 

 which it grows, he calls it the pine-apple. This 

 apple is full of water, fo that on piercing it at the 

 bafis with a knife, there immediately flows from it 

 a good pint of very clear and wholefome water. 

 Father du Tertre informs us, that he has feveral 

 times found a fimilar refrefhment in the leaves, 

 rounded like a cornet, of a fpecies of balizier, 

 which grows on the fandy plains of Guadaloupe. 

 I have been affured by many of our fportfmen, 

 that nothing was more proper for the quenching 

 of third than the leaves of the miftletoe, which 

 grows on many trees. 



Such 



