26 LETTER IL 



and Ivy at that facred Seafon -, in a rich Soil it 

 will grow to be fixty foot high 3 vide IVoods 

 Rogers's account of Juan Fernandez (an Ifland in 

 the South Sea) whofe Words in page 129, are as 

 follow, viz, Piemento Trees are plenty here, and 

 we fee fome of fixty foot high and about two 

 yards thick ; and Cotton Trees higher, and near 

 four fathom round in the Stock. N, B. That at 

 Nevis we have Cotton Trees of the fame fort, and 

 not much lefs in circumference of Body ; but as 

 they yield little Cotton, and are fo very tall, we 

 content ourfelves with gathering Cotton from the 

 Shrub only, as mentioned in paragraph the fecond 

 of this Letter. Caffia Fiftula is a ftrait-bodied 

 Tree, thirty foot high, w^ith fpreading Branches, 

 from which hang the Pods, that are of a dark 

 brown colour, and about a foot long each ; it is 

 not unlike a Sycamore. Gum Alymnae is a very 

 large-bodied Tree that is at leaft forty foot high, 

 and the Gum oozes or diftills thorough the l^ark 

 like Rofin, for about three or four yards upwards 

 from the bottom of the Tree all around it, a\ hich 

 puts me in mind of Milfon's Defcriptiou of the 

 Trees of Paradife, booklv. line 248. viz. 



Groves whofe rich T'rees ivept odorous Gtims 

 and Bahn. 

 The Manchineal is like our Englijh dwarf Apple- 

 tree 5 its Leaves, in Colour, Shape and Bigncls, 

 are much the fame with EngUfk Pear-tree Leaves^ 



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