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in a Penknife juft where the Leaves ( that are 

 about two yards long and a full foot broad in 

 the middle ) do joyn to the top of the Body of 

 the Tree, 'and fo make a fmall hollow between 

 them, as it were on purpofe to receive the BleiT- 

 ings of Heaven, viz. the Rain and the Dew. 

 Thefe wild Bonanoes bear neither Boughs nor 

 fruit, and have this remarkable Angularity attend- 

 ing them, viz. That they are Annuals, dying 

 quite to the Ground every Autumn, and {hooting 

 up again from the Roots in the Spring, till 

 they are bigger than a man's Thigh. The bearing 

 fort are Annuals too, as well as without boughs ^ 

 an account of their Fruit you have in Paragraph 

 7 of this Letter. And as for the Trees them- 

 felves, you may fee fome of them, as alfo fome 

 Sugar Canes, growing in Dr. Walkers Garden 

 at your College, in the Phyfick Garden at Chelfea, 

 and in that of Oxford. The Body of them both 

 is fo ftrangely porous that we do not give it the 

 name of Wood -, nor indeed does it merit the 

 Name, for a Man with a good fharp Hatchet, 

 may cut it eafily thorough at a fingle ftroak ; 

 it is ufually between two and three yards long^ 

 and grows at a diftance from the Sea-fide. 



19. This Wood (befides many other kinds 

 that are peculiar to fo warm a Latitude) was 

 plentifully flocked with Mountain Cabbage-trees, 

 which as moft Authors do odly mifreprefent, 



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