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I fhall now defcrlbe as they really are. They are 

 called Mountain Cabbages at Nevis, becaufe they 

 always are found pretty high in our Mountain 

 there ; and if any of them did formerly grow in 

 our lower Grounds, they are now entirely de- 

 stroyed . JVoods Rogers, page 131. tells us, that at 

 Juan Fernandez (an Ifland in the South Sea, in 

 Latitude 34. 10. South ) The Cabbage - trees 

 abound about three miles in the Woods, and the 

 Cabbage is very good ; moft of them are on the 

 tops of the neareft and loweft Mountains. 



20. People here in England run away with 

 the following notions, viz -, That they grow to 

 fixty feet in height ; That they bear a Cabbage 

 exactly refembling our's in Colour, Shape and 

 Tafte, though vaftly exceeding them in bulk as 

 being larger than a JVi?2cheJier Bufliel ; and that 

 their Bodies ferve for Pofts in our Sugar-Mills. 

 One of my Parilhioners in the Weji Indies affured 

 me, that in the SpaniJJj Ifland of Porto Rico 

 (whither he and fome more Rafkals went, in 

 order to plunder a Church and Convent during 

 Queen Ami^ Wars with France and Spain, but 

 were well beaten, and moft of them who ven- 

 tured to land killed) he faw them fixty foot high 

 at leaft : However he owned them to be the felf 

 fame in all other refped:s with thofe growing at 

 Nevis and Saint Chrijlopher^, and added that the 

 Soil there was infinitely preferable to our's, which 



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