in the woods contiguous to the fettlement is 

 a filk-cotton-tree, which at five feet from the 

 ground, meafures fixty-eight feet in circum- 

 ference ; and at fifty feet from the ground, 

 thirty-one. The height of this tree is pro- 

 digious ; but the adjoining trees, crowding 

 round, prevent it's being accurately taken. 

 This account mentions the trees of this fpecies, 

 as the largeft in the country. 



Mr. Evelin gives us the defcription of 

 another curious tree, called the Arbor de Rays, 

 which is found chiefly in the Eaft Indies, 

 and is remarkable for the manner, in which 

 it propagates. From the end of it's boughs 

 it diflils, in a continued vifcous thread, a 

 kind of gummy matter ; which increafes like 

 an icicle, till it reach the ground, where it 

 takes root, and becomes a ftem, putting 

 forth new branches, and propagating anew; 

 fo that a fingle plant of this kind may in- 

 creafe into a foreft. 



Strabo defcribes an Indian tree, which I 

 mould fuppofe, was the fame with Mr. 

 Evelin's arbor de Rays; only Strabo accounts 

 more fimply for the mode of it's propagation. 



It's 



