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and many others, were fo tame and ftupid as to fufFpr themfelves 

 to be taken by the hand. 



Lieutenant King, the hiftorian of the ifle, enumerates five Trees. 

 fpecies of trees which afford good timber, the Pine, hve Oak, a 

 yellow wood, a hard black wood, and one like the EngliJJj Beech ; 

 of thefe we can only afcertain one, the CypreJJus Columnarls*. Cyprf.ssus 



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This magnificent tree grows to the height or a hundred and 

 eighty, and even two hundred and twenty feet, and is from fix 

 to nine feet in diameter ; eighty feet clear of branches, and with 

 eighty or ninety feet of found timber t : it is as light as the befl 

 Norway Deal for mafts, and yields a fine turpentine. We are 

 not to wonder at the fize, for the forefl of the ifle had never been 

 difturbed, but by old Time, fince its creation. 



Tu.'^ Areca Sapida SolandrlX is a ufeful tree, for it yields a Areca Sai'ida. 

 £abbage like the Areca Oleracea, or cabbage-tree ; but Captain 

 Cook compares the tafte more to that of an almond than a cab- 

 bage, and adds, that it proved an excellent refource as an efculent. 

 It is the fecond fort mentioned by Hazvkefworth%. 



KFernTreeis mentioned by Captain PM///), 2iDickfonta^ which 

 grows even as high as twenty feet, and proves good food for 

 Iheep. 



A WILD Mufa, or plantane, grows in this ifland ; and Mr. 

 Phillip mentions the Supple Jack of the rVe_fl Indies, the Paulinia Supm-e Jack. 

 Pinnata oi Linnaus\\, which is interwoven in all diredions, and 

 greatly impedes the progrefs through the forefls. 



* G. Forfter, Flor. Auftr. p. 67. N' 351. 



t See Phillip, 92. and the Extrads of his Letters, 16. jG. ForRer, PL Efc. 66. 



§ Coll. of Voy. iii, 624. jj Brown's Jam. 212. Cururuape, Pifo. 250. 



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