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THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. 



merly furnished the world with paper, besides being 

 used for making boats, ropes, etc. (Fig. 50.) 



,: 



FIG. 50. The Papyrus of the Nile. 



FIG. 51. Cocoa-nut Tree, (Cocos nuctfera,) 

 and Plantain, (Musa Paradisiacal) 



5. Linnaeus, the great Botanist, called Grasses the 

 plebeians, and PALMS the princes, of the vegetable 



