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externally for Wounds. A" Strong Decodion of 

 them is made to wafh old Ulcers, and the Juice is 

 applied. to frefh Hurts, and they fay with great 

 Succefs. 



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The Chocolate "Nut-Tree. 



CACAO. 



HIS is an American Tree, very beautiful as 

 well as very valuable for its Fruit. The 

 Trunk is of the Thicknefs of a Man's Leg, and 

 the Height of fifteen Feet ; but in this it differs 

 greatly according to the Soil ; and the Size of the 

 Fruit alfo will differ from the fame Caufe, whence 

 fome have talked of four different kinds of the 

 Chocolote Nut. The Tree grows very regularly. 

 The Surface is uneven, for tti€ Bark rifes into 

 Tubercles •, the Leaves are half a Foot long, three 

 Inches broad, of a fine flrong Green, and pointed 

 at the Ends. The Flowers are fmall and yel- 



lowlfh, and they grow in Clufters from the 

 Branches, and even from the Trunk of the Tree; 

 but each has its feparate Stalk. . The Fruit is of 

 the Shape of a Cucumber, half a Foot long, 

 and thicker than a Man's Wrifl: ; this is ridged, 

 and, when ripe, of a purpllfh Colour, with fome 

 Tindl of Yellow. The Cacao Nuts, as they are 

 called, are lodged within this Fruit; every Fruit 

 contains between twenty and thirty of them. They 

 are of the Bignefs of a large Olive, but not io 

 thick: And are compofed of a woody Shell, and 

 a large Kernel, which affords the Chocolate. 



The common Way of taking this in Chocolate 

 is not the only one in which it may be- given ; 



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