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them from reftoring the fortifications, or augmenting their 

 forces. 



The great fquirrel of Maiabar, Sonnerat,\\. tab. Ixxxvii. is New Squirrel, 

 found near Mate ; it is as large as a cat, the ears fliort and 

 tufted, the tail longer than the body, the upper part of the body 

 reddifli. It frequents the coco-trees, is fond of the liquor of 

 the nut, which it will pierce to get at ; has a moft llirill and 

 Iharp cry. 



- The great flaple of this country is, as it was in the days of Pepper, 

 Arrian, pepper. They cultivate here, and indeed far inland, 

 the Piper nigrum and album ; alfo the P. longum^ or long pep- 

 per, Rumph. Amboin. v. 333, tab. ti6. All thefe are climbing 

 plants, and require fupport. The white is only the fruit in an 

 unripe ftate. Raynal fays, we draw annually from this neigh- 

 borhood fifteen hundred thoufand pounds weight. 



The interior of the Malabar coaft is filled with forefls of Great Trees 

 trees, many of which are of maiedic fizes, and what the author „ n 



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ftyles vaJlcB magnitudinis. I have formed a colledlion of the 

 fpecies, moft of which Liniuvus was unable to afcertain. In thofe 

 cafes I refer to our great Ray, and give the Malabar names, 

 with references to the Hortus. The trees that are not to be 

 found in this catalogue, may be met with in that of the Cey- 

 lonefe. The name of Rheede prefixed, will evince them to be 

 common to both countries. 



Katon Maragam Rheede Mateb. p. iv. tab. 13, Rail biji, ii. 1463 



Idon Moulli — . . _ - _ Raii hiJl.W. 1482 



Kara Nagolam — iv. tab, 18. « - - - - 14S3 



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