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woman's bread, in Latin mamilla : another fpecies, 

 with figs quite red, and not bigger than an olive, 

 fuch as thofe of Mount Ida; another with white 

 fruit; with black; of the colour of porphyry, 

 and thence called, by the Ancients, porphyrita. In 

 the courfe of this track would likewife occur the 

 fig-tree of Hyrcania, loaded with more than two 

 hundred bufhels of fruit; the ruminai fig-tree, the 

 fpecies under the fhade of which Romulus and Re- 

 mus were fuckled by a (he-wolf; the fig-tree of 

 Hercules ; in a word, the nineteen fpecies enume- 

 rated by Pliny, and a great variety of others, un- 

 known to the Romans and to us. Each of thefe 

 fpecies of trees would exhibit vegetables of various 

 magnitude; young, old, folitary, in clufters ; fome 

 planted by the brink of rivulets, fome iffuing 

 from the clefts of rocks. Each tree would pre- 

 fent the fame variety in it's fruits expofed, on 

 one fingle foot, if I may ufe the expreffion, to 

 different Latitudes, to the South, to the North, 

 to the Eaft, to the Weft, to the Sun, and under 

 fliade of the leaves : fome of them would be green, 

 and juft beginning to fhoot, others violet, and 

 cracked, their crevices ftored with honey. On 

 the other hand, we fhould find fome, under diffe- 

 rent Latitudes, in the fame degree of maturity, as 

 if they hung upon the fame tree^ thofe which grow 

 to the North being, in the bottom of valleys, 

 fometimes as forward as thofe which, though 



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