BREAD-FRUIT TREE. 



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From zone to zone pursue on shifting wing, 

 The bright perennial journey of the spring ; 

 Bring my rich balms from Mecca's ha'low'd glades, 

 Sweet flowers, that glitter in Arabia's shades ; 

 Fruits, whose fair forms in bright succession glow 

 Gilding the banks of Arno, or of Po ; 

 Each leaf, whose fragrant steam with ruby lip 

 Gay China's nymphs from pictur'd vases sip; 

 Each spicy rind, which sultry India boasts, 

 Scenting the night-air round her breezy coasts; 

 Roots, whose bold stems in bleak Siberia blow, 

 And gem with many a tint the eternal snow; 

 Barks, whose broad umbrage high in ether waves 

 O'er Andes' steeps, and hides his golden caves; 

 And, where yon oak extends his dusky shoots 

 Wi''e o'er the rill, that bubbles from his roots j 

 Beneath whose anus, protected from the storm, 

 A turf-built altar rears its rustic form; 

 Sylphs! with religious hands fresh garlands twine, 

 And deck with lavish pomp Hygei&'s shrine.". 



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section IT. 



Bread-fruit Tree, 

 Artocarpus. Linn. 



The systematic name Artocarpus is merely the English name of 

 the plant translated into Greek. Of this plant there are several 

 species; particularly A. incisa, or bread-fruit tree, with cut or in- 

 dented leaves; and A. interifo!ia, or bread-fruit tree, with whole 

 leaves. The latter is called in India joccahee ; it has many varieties, 

 and bears fruit like tin' preceding, but of an inferior kind. 



The genuine bread-fruit tree is the artocarpus incisa. Though 

 this tree has been mentioned by many voyagers, particularly by 

 Dampier, by Rumphius, and by Lord Anson, vet verv little notice 

 seems to have been taken of it, till the return of Captain Wallis from 

 the South Seas. 



Captain Cook, in his Voyage, observes, that this fruit not only 



