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23. We have at Nevis Jeflamine bufhes (not 

 nailed to the walls as here in England) that yeild 

 us Flowers full as large as Primrofes -, Thefe 

 Flowers are as white as Snow, and indeed 

 fo thick fet together, that the whole Bufh (at a 

 very fmall diftance) looks as if it was covered 

 with a large white Holland Sheet : Their fcent is 

 proportionably rich and high. 



24. The white Cedar there, is a tall Tree which 

 bears a white Flower in ihape like a Bell, it's 

 Leaves refembling thofe of an Englijh Pear-Tree. 

 We have alfo an odd fort of Vegetable (the Name 

 of which I cannot recoiled:) which I confefs to be 

 lingular enough : It has neither Leaves, Branches,, 

 nor Flowers, nor Roots, and is about as thick and 

 round as a common Whip-cord, ufually running 

 along through the tops of Bufhes all manner of 

 ways, till it exceeds an hundred yards in length: 

 It is furely one of the moft beautiful of all yel- 

 low Colours -y and what is reckoned yet ftranger 

 there, no part of it approaches within three foot 

 of the ground, and it is moreover entirely different 

 from the Bufh which breeds and cherifhes it. 

 ^cere^ whether this Vegetable is not of the 

 Mifsletoe kind, though I never faw it growing 

 upon bulky Trees. 



25. IVoods Roger Sy'pzgt 32, fays, that at Saint 

 Vince7it\ (one of the Cape de Verd Iflands) there 

 ^re large Spiders that weave their Webs fo flrongly 



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