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anfwered above, Non caufa pro caufa is here 
2 very frequent. 
; -29. Tue) fixth» argument, which the 
Séxualifts triumph in, as a demonftration: of 
their doctrine; is taken from the culture of 
_ the palm-tree. <¢ Inftar omnium argumento- 
*‘ cum effe poteft (fays F. Gefnerus) (0) mo- 
‘dus quo foecundatio palmae dactyliferae, 
‘¢ ad obtinendos dactylorum fructus matifros, 
 “apud’ Perfas inftituitur, a cl: Kaempfero, - 
_ jn his locis, atmotatus,” It would be too long 
to’ tranfcribe all that modern authors have 
 faid concerning this tree, The reader may, _ 
if he pleafes, confult Fobn Leo (p), Profper 
_ Alpinus (q), Hadgi Muftapha Aga (r), Engel- 
| bertus Kaempfer (3), Pere Labat (t), Chrift. 
Got. Ludwig. (u), ec. 
30, Tu sé authors are agreed only in this, 
; that the date-bearing palm-tree has no flowers: 
"and unlefs the flowering or male palm-tree be 
- fificiently near, or the duft of its apices be 
Sher fome 
i Differt. p. 85. 
p) Harris colle. vol. 1. p. 347- 
' (9) De pl. Aeg p. 24. 
Ss 
ee a o 
(),T. Jutt. p- 69. 
A Amen. exot. p. 706. 
ay Voyage aux iflos de Ameigee “Hague edit. vol. 1. 
fe . 2. p. 209. 
@) Ib J. Gener. dit p- 86. 
