LETTER II. 2$ 



Other Plants of the Alloes kind) aflforded us a 

 quite different prolpedt from that of the Morn- 

 ing. 



4. The Sun began now to peep out from under 

 a Cloud ; and indeed it foon fhone fo very warmly, 

 that we made what hafte we could to a deep Gill 

 near to the Conorrhee Hills, that runs upwards 

 from the Sea fhore about two hours travel. This 

 Gill is large, and grows fteeper, the higher we go 

 up from the Sea, being plentifully flocked with 

 Palmetto or Wild Palm, (I never faw above two 

 bearing Palm-trees ; they were bigger than my 

 Body and thirty foot tall, but had bore no Dates 

 then) Piemento, Caffia Fiftula, Gum Alymnae, 

 and other fragrant Trees, and Ever- greens, from 

 top to bottom, which terminated at the Sea-fide 

 with a long Grove of Manchineal Apple-trees. 

 N, B, Our Trees are all Ever-greens ; for as faft 

 as one Leaf drops off another fucceeds it. Pal- 

 metto is much fmaller but refembles nearly the 

 bearing Palm-tree, which is exadlly as we find it 

 drawn out, and defcribed by Authors. Piemento 

 is the Tree that yields Jamaica Pepper, alias 

 AU-fpIcc I its Leaves can fcarce be diftinguifhed 

 from Bay-leaves, though of a much ftronger aro- 

 matick fmell : We there at Chrijimas^ ufually 

 ^dorn our Churches with fmall Boughs of it, the 

 Fruit being then green upon them, juft as your 

 Englijl: Churches here are decked with Holly 



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