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tree to tree^ until at lenj;th it offers to the eve a 

 confused tissue, exhibiting some resemblance to 

 the riijgini;;; of a ship. This singular plant 

 produces a Ici^'ujninous fiovver of apurpleco- 

 Jour ; its pod is an inch thick, and about a foot 

 and a half long-; it ccnlains an oily pulp of a 

 sweet and verv agreeable taste, and five seeds re- 

 sembling- those of the cotton. The vine, which 

 is much tougher and more ilexihle than osier, 

 serves for many purposes, and can be procured 

 from one to tv,o hundred falhoms in length, as 

 Vvhen it descends it does not take root in the 

 earth, like another plant analagous to it, M'liich 

 is a native of the torrid zone. The husband- 

 men, before they make use of this vine, pass it 

 lightly through the flames, which not only 

 loosens the bark, but at the same time renders it 

 more flexible, Thev ejnploy it both in making 

 large baskets, and as \; attling for their hedge? ; 

 it is sometimes evea ii.-.rd in cables for Tesselt^^ 

 %Yhich \^ear better than ihn^c made of hen.p, as 

 they are capable of rcsistiiig ni;ii.stnre for a longer 

 time. In the Arc]ii})elago of Chiloe is anoiher 

 plant called pcpoi, in soire respects re;-embiing' 

 the coo-ul, wliirh the inliaijitant* of those islands 

 use as ropes for their periaugrcs. The voqui, or 

 zoclii, described by Feuille, which commonly 

 grows in the woods of the ri-p.risinie provinces, is 

 cf a distinct s^-jccies;, as- i^ the V'-rcolaria of the 



